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4 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
@AyishaKurji is a powerful advocate for Eating Disorders in Saskatoon.

I was happy to support her voice in shedding light on this problem, which was a serious concern before and even more so now.
I wrote a thread on this topic last week. I focused on anorexia, but @AyishaKurji is right: most eating disorders are not anorexia and we’re seeing a rise in many types.
Also, Dr. Hinz is right. I kind of talked a lot about a step-down unit in the article but a specialized inpatient unit, a step-down unit, and a outpatient treatment program would be a standard of care that allows you to progress patients through a course of treatment.
More on the rise of Eating Disorders during the pandemic.

(Can you tell it’s Eating Disorder Awareness Week?)

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2 Feb
Novavax would be the second largest producer of asshole proteins in country.

*The Calgary Flames are first.
Also, yes, the Novavax vaccine works via the asshole protein. This time, instead of mRNA or viral vectors, they just made the asshole protein itself. But how they did that was kind of cool.
They took the gene code for the asshole protein and put it in a different virus. Then they made that virus infect a bunch of moth cells in a lab.

So now you’ve got a ton of infected moth cells that are producing asshole proteins.
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29 Jan
So... Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, AstraZenica, Novavax, Sinovac.

Not all are approved yet but it looks like we’ll have at least a half dozen vaccines going around in various parts of the world soon enough.

As expected, each has their own pluses and minuses.
Pfizer & Moderna (mRNA): best efficacy results so far, but need 2 doses, transport at low temps. Won’t have enough for the world (like all the vaccines). Pfizer with 2 billion & Moderna with 1 billion doses or so by the end of 2021.
AstraZenica (viral vector): So far studies suggest not as effective as the mRNA ones but still very good. Two doses. Don’t need super low temps. Said they’d have 3 billion doses in 2021, not sure if that’s still true.
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28 Jan
#BellLetsTalk about anorexia and a lack of treatment options in Saskatchewan.
#BellLetsTalk about the tangled mental health system in Canada. My thread from last year talks about public and private mental health delivery.
#BellLetsTalk about social media bullying in teens and suicidality.
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28 Jan
I didn’t get a chance to comment on this more the other day, but we are absolutely seeing this surge of anorexia in Saskatoon over the last 6 months or so.

In some ways, it’s almost reassuring to see it’s happening elsewhere too. Initially we were wondering if it was just us.
Anorexia is probably the deadliest mental illness you can get for children & adolescents. The mortality rate is high and since it usually hits teens, it takes out kids who shouldn’t be dying of anything at their age. So it’s serious stuff.

They mostly die from two causes:
1) Heart problems

See, if you’re really underweight, you don’t have much left to burn for energy other than muscle.

Your heart is a muscle.

So if you’re low enough in weight, your heart will literally shrink in size. You’re burning it for fuel.
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25 Jan
Merck’s vaccines are out of the running. These two used yet a different mechanism to try to protect against the virus. In this case, it didn’t work.
What the Merck vaccines tried to do was combine the asshole protein on to a weakened live virus (not the COVID virus, in both vaccines it was a different virus). So basically this guy, but with the asshole protein spliced in.
That’s different than the AstraZenica vaccine, which gives you the asshole protein instructions in an empty shell of a virus that doesn’t replicate in your body.

The Merck ones put it in a weak virus that CAN replicate in your body.
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25 Jan
Hockey thread time:

7 games into the season and the Oilers are running one all-world line and are otherwise running in sand.

Among forwards with at least 5 games, only McDavid, Nuge, and Puljujarvi are running over 50% in score-adjusted shot attempts at 5x5.
Even Drai and Yamomoto are running at 45% shot attempts, though they’re hovering around 50% in expected goals, so at least it’s not ‘all’ luck.

The bottom 6 is... well... Turris is running 34%. Oilers are getting outshot 2 to 1 with him on the ice! It’s a mess!
But there’s something else here too.

The defense:
Bear and Nurse are clear above 50%. They’re expected goals are almost 66%! Amazing!

After that, everyone else is 43% or below. Larsson is at 38%! The expected goals are the same.

We have one pair and mud.
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