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13 Apr, 32 tweets, 26 min read
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN You've conflated 2 stories. There is less vaccine supply. Like the rest of the world, countries must compete with the US. It's not just about supply. In Canada right now the provinces are either doing very well or it's a disaster.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN I'm a dual citizen. My family is in Fla and Texas so I know how bad it can get. Ontario and Alberta are led by right-wing populist Premiers who don't like the measures. Ontario's Premier Ford is incompetent. He has created a chaotic vaccine rollout.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN There are supplies of the vaccine sitting on shelves. The province's online registration system was delayed from Dec to mid-March. That left 34 public health units having to come up with their own registration system, Vaccinations started in Jan.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN Ontario is in serious trouble. There are more people in the ICUs and vented than at any point in the pandemic. The variants started to emerge in Ontario in Jan. 130 people living in 2 nursing homes died. Ontario has the worst record on long-term care in the OECD.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN In the spring the Premier brought in the military to fill in for staff that became ill. The situation was so bad they wrote a strongly worded report and released it to the public. The government said it would fix the problems, It still hasn't done enough.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN On April 3, Ontario started a 28-day state of emergency with stay-at-home orders. This is the 3d one. The last one started in Dec, just after Christmas, was moving towards reopening in Jan. That's when the variants hit,
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN The Premier delayed starting the 2nd state of emergency until after Christmas so people could shop. They did. Then they got sick. The Premier raced to reopen the province even with numbers going up. Instead of holding firm, the restrictions were rolled back.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN In mid-January, the experts started to warn that the variants would crush the health care system if he didn't take immediate action to halt the rollbacks. They didn't call for a new state of emergency, just a slower reopening. That didn't happen.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN The vaccination programs started with seniors, but it would not have stopped the surge without other measures. This one is different. The people showing up in the emergency room and in the ICUS are young, previously healthy people.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN This group isn't vaccinated in the US. For a month the Premier preferred listening to the right-wing media that claimed the models were manipulated. By the end of March things were in bad shape. In the fall schools were able to stay open during the 2nd surge.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN This time kids were getting sick and spreading the infection in the community, esp to families. At the end of March he mused that there might be a lockdown after Easter. As the ICUS filled 150 doctors wrote to the Premier asking to stop rolling back restrictions.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN Since the infections were being spread in the workplace and among younger people, the experts asked the province to reinstate paid sick leave. The federal govt had a special 2-week paid leave for people who had to isolate. When that was used up, there was nothing left.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN The province refused, even though every public health unit in the province begged them to act. Doctors were sounding the alarm about families showing up in the ER and ending up on vents. 150 ICU doctors wrote an open letter to the Premier at the end of March.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN The Premier spoke to the media and hinted that there would be a lockdown over Easter. At the end of his statement was a list of new measures that relaxed the restrictions in the shutdown and red categories. He made retail and essential business in the shutdown zone
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN In the next level down he added indoor dining for up to 50 people or 50% capacity. He made a number of other changes that would have required even more people to work every day. It was the opposite of what experts said was needed.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN There was evidence of the infection spreading at school Public health officials asked him to move up the Easter Break so they could shut for 2 weeks. He refused. Midweek he announced some restrictions, but nonoe that would protect the groups at high risk, younger people
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN Toronto and other large municipalities said they would stop in-person classes for 2 weeks The Premier mocked them. The day before Easter the pressure finally got to him and he announced the state of emergency to start after Easter.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN Just like his delay at Christmas, people used the weekend to shop and have large gatherings. More schools shut down. The hospitals were in crisis. The Hospital for Sick Children set up an ICU for adults under 50.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN The province passed an order allowing hospitals to transfer critically ill patients to hospitals across the province. They wanted to free up space for new cases in the hot zones. Transferring more than 100 people in ICUs tells the story
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN Doctors are working as critical care nurses to meet the demand. All surgery and procedure that aren't lifesaving have been canceled. Last Friday he said schools would be open for in-person learning when the Easter Break ends next week.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN Today he announced that all in-person education is suspended until further notice. Apparently when he finally looked at the speed with which the variants are transmitted, he acted.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN When asked why they didn't act sooner, the Solicitor Gen said they wanted to see if the models were accurate. There is an excellent scientific advisory group, he's rather listen to the right-wing in the US.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN According to doctors monitoring the situation 1 person under 50 was dying every 2.8 days last week. That number will go up In the summer Ontario had no deaths. In the summer the provinces took back control. Some are doing really well, others like Ontario are a nightmare.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN Because the variants are hitting younger people, vaccination wouldn't have made a huge difference since the people being vaccinated are over 50. toronto.ctvnews.ca/a-person-under…
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN The difference between provinces and territories is stark. For every 100,000 people there are 323 active cases in Alberta, 223 in Ontario, 213 in Saskatchewan, 189 in Manitoba, 147 in Quebec.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN In the Yukon and Nunavut, where large mining operations are at risk, there are 0 active cases per 100,000 people. There are 2 in the NorthWest Territories, Newfoundland has 3 cases per 100,000; PEI and Nova Scotia have 4 New Brunswick has 19 Manitoba has 89.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN Same country, the same proportion of vaccine. The only difference is provincial leadership. The Maritimes set up a bubble for 4 provinces. No one, including Canadians from other provinces, could enter. When the variants start to rise they acted fast.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN Manitoba is landlocked, yet they have been successful in keeping the numbers down. The pandemic is different. Ford said on Friday that he was prioritizing people in hot zones allowing anyone over 18 to get vaccinated.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN 2 problems. No one under 50 can register using the online system. The people under 50 are working so pop-up clinics are a challenge. Reporting today by the CBC raises questions about whether he has politicized the vaccine rollout, again.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN There are maps that allow Canadians to see where the virus is by postal codes Mike Crawley, a reporter for CBC, compared the postal codes on the province's list with the statistics for each area. There is a disconnect. cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN @CBCQueensPark Americans may remember Doug Ford from his days on Toronto Council. He was bully-in-chief for his brother Rob, Toronto's crack-smoking mayor, Rob died of cancer during the mayoral campaign, Doug stepped in and lost.
@TheLeadCNN @piya @paulanewtonCNN @CBCQueensPark Doug Ford and his counterpart in Alberta, Jason Kenney, are desperate to blame Trudeau. Trudeau's not perfect, but this isn't a question of vaccine supply. health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epide…

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