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Mary Fernando MD

3 Jan, 5 tweets, 3 min read

Spin: hospitals are over capacity ONLY because of #COVID19

Reality: We were overcapacity before #COVID19 but now it's worse.

Fact: 🇨🇦 has cut hospital beds for decades and ranks near the bottom of the OECD theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

2/What does this mean?

First and foremost - patients have been in hospital hallways for years, or in broom closets as I wrote way back in 2007 😬thestar.com/news/2007/01/2…
🇨🇦 pay taxes for good healthcare - governments should not be cutting Canadians out of good hospital care.

3/ Governments are promising with #COVID19 - as they have for years- to increase beds.

1. Specifics this time, not just promises -how many beds and what staffing?

2. Will these beds be permanent?

We need this- with long covid and surgical backlogs

#PleaseMakeALittleNoise

4/ Fact: it is not that Canada has added beds too slowly, we have CUT the number of beds.

A chart I made: since 2000 to 2019, we have actually cut the number of beds:

Total Hospital beds:

2000 - 115 829

2019 - 94,677

Acute care beds:

2000 - 106 752

2019 - 74 069

5/ For those who have been fooled by the spin that this is because Canada needs to cut costs, please note we spend more than the average OECD country. A little chart to show how badly we’re doing despite this:

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Mary Fernando MD

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Meanwhile, in Canada, the children are all here, we’ve eaten a fab Thai dinner and we are all a tad nervous. #Debates2020

He cannot shut up. He is running off at the mouth.

Why isn’t the moderator doing his job??? Why is trump’s microphone shut OFF.

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Mary Fernando MD

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Our 15 year old matriarch: Sasha. #NationalDogDay

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Mary Fernando MD

@MaryFernando_

21 Aug 20

https://twitter.com/MaryFernando_/status/1296897074609491968

1/ Title: lies and making stuff up about #COVID

Early on, while some of us were advocating for #masks, the public was told that #masks don't work to protect the public and that they make people touch their faces more increasing the spread of #COVID19

https://twitter.com/MaryFernando_/status/1296897074609491968

2/ Then we were told that #masks work but they wanted to tell us they don’t to save them for healthcare workers - this admission of lying during a #pandemic erodes public trust

@VoiceOfFranky

3/ Luckily @VoiceOfFranky showed polling proving that people who wore #masks were NOT more at risk for poor behavior, risking a #COVID19 infection. Was this a lie or simply making stuff up? Certainly it wasn’t true and truth is what increases public trust in a #pandemic

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