If you/your org are responding to #COVID-19 & could use help from volunteer researchers, scientists, health care professionals, students in these disciplines, 5000+ volunteers @COVID_19_Canada can help.
-34,000 volunteer hrs deployed
-45% community support (care homes, elder, mental health & HCW support)
-44% research (clinical trials, epi studies, data collection, analysis, app devt)
-9% #scicomm (kitchen table "chats", #COVID-19 Science Explained)
Science volunteers @COVID_19_Canada speak every major language in #Canada, can help w/ translation, outreach in non-English/French-speaking communities.
Volunteers have app & web dev skills, multiple programming languages, wet lab, science communication & teaching expertise.
More than 70% of @COVID_19_Canada volunteers have at least a Masters degree.
We're located in every #Canadian province & territory.
We & @CanCovid are working to identify & respond to both community & policy maker #COVID-19 needs.
We get requests to find people for paid positions too, so if you're a scientist/researcher/health care professional who might be interested in work, you can sign up on our volunteer list to receive notifications of any position requests we receive that fit your skill set.
If you want to sign up to volunteer/receive notification of paid #COVID-19 response positions matching your skill set, you can sign up here: covid19resources.ca/Volunteer.html
We're especially looking for interested folk in the Atlantic provinces & Yukon, Nunavut, NWT
CC folks who can help us get info out that @COVID_19_Canada science volunteers can help w/ lots of #COVID-19 community, science communication & research needs:
Thanks for your patience, everyone tagged on this thread. Trying to make sure that people know we can help if they need it as cases ramp up again. We're fast and effective!
#Canadian journalists covering #COVID-19, especially freelancers, smaller communities w/ little research budget
@COVID_19_Canada science & researcher volunteers can help collect, analyze & visualize data for your investigative reporting. See thread for link to request volunteers
If you can, please help get the word out to #Canadian journalists that @COVID_19_Canada volunteer researchers may be able to help, especially for those who are resource- or time-strapped.
People have been asking about accounts to follow for H5N1 info.
Here are accounts that provide excellent, fast, thorough and judicious reporting and H5N1 discussions on Twitter geared toward people who are not technical experts
The wonderful @MackayIM is still here, but his account is now closed.
@HelenBranswell @Laurie_Garrett @DelthiaRicks @weese_scott @deonandan @NGrandvaux @ProMED_mail @MackayIM These are just a few people whose accounts I keep an eye on regularly to help me catch up/point me toward emerging info--they often share other good info and discussions.
The Forecast score is the lowest it's been since the start of Omicron. About 1 in 47 people in Canada is currently infected. Forecast scores are dropping 7%/week for Canada (-15 to +3%/week for all regions).
The first was my dad, who was firy and irascible and generous and thoughtful and sad. But who enjoyed irony. And was a patriarchal type at times.
My mom and brothers and I would have sworn he'd never want to live as a disempowered version of himself.
But that wasn't true.
The deliria were truly, gut-wrenchingly awful. I slept in ERs beside him every few weeks. He bellowed, swung his cane at people and stripped off all his clothes to walk around the ER (all 6ft 300lb of him). He was frightened and frightened people.