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I’m hearing a lot about hospital administrators trying to silence physicians who are speaking up and telling the truth about Ontario’s covid response. I’ve heard this from multiple colleagues at

One last tweet for today...But I don't think the conceptualization risk-benefit with vaccines has ever been stated more clearly than by Ben Franklin. He had a son (Franky Franklin) who

Vaccine prioritization in phase II in Ontario: the province has put out a framework, which seems not unreasonable (https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-releases-list-of-those-eligible-for-covid-19-vaccine-under-phase-2-1.5264702?cache=ngyhfzx

Israel's reproduction number appears to have declined rather sharply in recent days, with around 25% of the country vaccinated, and some additional percentage having at least partial immunity via prior

An observation on schools and COVID-19. In both Ontario and BC, there is what I will call a "magical unicorn" narrative related to schools and COVID-19. In these provinces public

Four points to make re: @SteiniBrown ’s presentation1. This is a clear demonstration of how critical communication is to pandemic control. 2. We have a tsunami of deaths coming. I

This is a key point. We REALLY need to know that we have good surveillance infrastructure in place for novel vaccine technologies. We haven't used mRNA vaccines at the population

I am not sure what’s up with all the angsting about test characteristics of rapid tests. Worried about low specificity and false positives? Repeat the test and only consider repeat

A thread...great news on the vaccine front this week, but perhaps a good time to remind folks that this is NOT the new normal, and that pandemics have a beginning,

Place-based nature of COVID-19 transmission might point the way forward for Ontario, on getting as close as we can to elimination. Would need ramped up testing, better resourced contact tracing,

If folks get exposed to COVID at a strip club, that’s not on them any more than it would be if someone were exposed at a gym or a meatpacking

So sickkids is doing a study to try to figure out whether masking is harmful in kids??There are 10,000 important kid-related questions for COVID and this is their research focus?I

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