My doubts began right away, when I saw pallets stacked on their sides inside the walk-in freezer.
But my concerns are not just limited to violations of Alberta's Occupational Health & Safety Code, meant to protect workers, and the risk of damaging vials.
For another example, why is this Ultracold Freezer so warm that the Manager, Immunization Business, a Registered Nurse, is able to touch it with her bare hand?
It is not below -70ºC as required for the Pfizer vaccine. How can DM Wynnyk claim Alberta is prepared without this?
This is not grainy cellphone video taken by a whistleblower. This is a highly-polished, multimedia announcement by @shandro, @CMOH_Alberta and DM Wynnyk, coordinated with @jkenney meeting the Pfizer vaccine arriving in Alberta that same afternoon.
Must finish work today, so will add to thread on weekend.
While I will be backing up my questions largely from 🇨🇦 & manufacturer sources, for now pls compare Alberta's purported readiness Mon 14 Dec with this demo in Ohio on Tue 1 Dec.
While reviewing these photos from GoA Flicker account today, I noticed *unredacted* high-res photos of the UPS shipping labels for Pfizer vaccine delivery to both the Calgary & Edmonton @AHS_media sites, showing shipping address & tracking barcodes.
One photog asked me to follow @AHS_media back so they could DM 👇🏼.
GoA has had enough time to take the photos down. I believe Min @shandro is playing w fire releasing unredacted photos of UPS shipping labels to vaccine depots @GovCanHealth@HarjitSajjan
After reviewing photos GoA proudly posted on 14 & 15 Dec, it is clear @AHS_media is failing not just at receiving the new -70ºC Pfizer vaccine, but also its *existing responsibilities* for refrigerated vaccines.
I've raised the Alberta Occupational Health & Safety Code violations of stacking pallets on their edges, as this could not only injure workers, but smash glass vials made more brittle by storage as low as -70ºC.
To someone with warehouse/logistics experience, walking into room where pallets are on their side edges is like walking into office with desk on fire. You can't miss it. Min @shandro & @AHS_media proud of this?!
Why does @AHS_media store empty pallets in the "freezer" at all? I count 4 wood & 2 plastic in the smallest room, connected to a largely empty warehouse. They warm the "freezer" unnecessarily, and introduce contaminants.
Here, plastic skids aka pallets have been used as bumpers. "DO NOT MOVE SKID" = they can fall when bumped, onto workers or fragile immunization products.
What oversight is DM Wynnyk's logistics team providing to @AHS_media?!
Edmonton: @AHS_media employee goes out alone to meet truck, then tries to hold door open with 1 hand, while pushing unsecured top-heavy box on flat cart through doorway with the other hand.
Up to 5000 lives depend on the safe delivery of the vaccine in just 1 box, which would have travelled Belgium-Germany-USA-Edmonton, only to be smashed by @AHS_media within 30 seconds of taking shipment & liability from UPS.
Someone pointed out: AHS vaccine worker cuts off UPS delivery van before it reaches loading dock right behind him, where shipping/receiving deal with couriers all day.
UPS should bring vaccine across level grade at dock, Receiving handles delivery, Vaccine picks up from there.
Problem already in Alberta's Pfizer vaccine rollout.
@AHS_media got 3900 doses, but so far has only vaccinated 3074 people.
If anyone has immunization performance by province from *first* Pfizer batch (received ~ Mon 14 Dec) please share links.
Some provinces eg. Ontario ran a pilot with only a set number of doses, rather than all the trays (nominally 975 doses each) they got.
These vaccines were supposed to provide hope, for healthcare workers who have gutting it out for months, hoping their lives will become less dependent on a premier without conscience.
Instead their rollout has become just another bitterness to tolerate.
🧵Respected Alberta political scientist @DuaneBratt posted in the friendlier place this same-day review of Health Min LaGrange's Statement of Defence in wrongful termination lawsuit from fired AHS CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos.
@DuaneBratt AB Justice Minister posted a link to the Statement of Defence from the Dropbox of a Heather Jenkins, who appears to be the Ministry's Press Secretary.
@DuaneBratt GoA is again using external counsel rather than (excellent) in-house lawyers, just as they did in CM v Alberta in 2022, when LaGrange was Minister of Education.
Taxpayers paid for their representation + Justice Dunlop's penalty to pay Plaintiff's Costs.
I've tagged my MLA Kathleen Ganley on this, as she is a lawyer and former Justice Minister. I am neither, so I would appreciate her review of this, with advisors at @albertaNDP as required.
It is baffling to me, but as a layperson I looked deeper...
You're apparently renovating the bathroom above my friend's high-rise condo suite in NW Calgary, and here's what you (?) have done to her ceiling. Your "installer" apparently ran down to say he would "clean it up".
Sunday Brunch Buffet at @HyattCalgary with my sister for her birthday tomorrow. All this chef-prepared food, on heavy plates and silverware, and graceful perfect service for $45.
Don’t tell her I could probably afford this more than once/year.
@AdrianaLaGrange @ABDanielleSmith @JMeddings @alanna_smithh @TheBreakdownAB @JenLeeCBC @PfParks @LukaszukAB @reportrix @CheSkulskiCTV @ByMatthewBlack @DuaneBratt We know 120 mg/5 mL is European concentration, and 160 mg/5 mL is N American.
Yet you paid MHCare Medical $70m for 5m bottles (10-14x Canada's annual demand) of European concentration, when Atabay would have happily mixed the Canadian concentration in this custom order for us.
@AdrianaLaGrange @ABDanielleSmith @JMeddings @alanna_smithh @TheBreakdownAB @JenLeeCBC @PfParks @LukaszukAB @reportrix @CheSkulskiCTV @ByMatthewBlack @DuaneBratt This "risk was identified" AFTER this thick suspension clogged the tiny diameter gastric feeding tubes of infants in Neonatal ICU, not "children under two years of age".
Evasive minimizers!
And you still defended this off-label use afterwards.
I have friends in Ukraine, including one in the Armed Forces. I did not speak with him this morning (would never reveal when I did) but I spoke to other friends about this proposed unsellable, expiring inventory dump disguised as an "aid shipment."