2/ Fallacy: Canada is waiting 4 months because of supply issues.
Fact: Canada has given the same # as many countries and has CHOSEN to delay shots longer than any other country in the world. This is a choice. Period.
Plan: if too many get sick, we need to change
3/ Fallacy: Delaying doses is safe
Fact: We aren’t even collecting patient data.
Plan: People half vaccinated should be identified in testing, hospital and ICU - and data must be collected. Tagging our data powerhouses.
If this is dangerous - change. Or just change now
4/ : We’ll get our shots earlier when supply is available.
Fact: There’s NO plan. No provincial government has said - ex: once we finish with 30 yer olds, well circle back to 80 year old for a second shot
Plan: Maybe just listen to experts like @dfisman + shorten the time now
The NACI document that this is all based on: "studies have not yet collected four months of data on vaccine effectiveness after the first dose" canada.ca/en/public-heal…
3/ Then 👇🏽
"it will leave the country vulnerable to variants — those already circulating, as well as new ones that could evolve inside the bodies of partially vaccinated people who are not able to swiftly fight off an infection."
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
1/ My @MedicalPost article "a new clinical reality...: some survivors of the virus have long-term and serious morbidities. People don’t just die or survive and that clear cut dichotomy should be put to rest." #COVID19 bit.ly/2Gqfyw
ungated - bit.ly/3n9LPIo
2/ @DrRickSwartz “the capacity is so thin in the stroke system, as in many specialties, that it will overwhelm the system...Canada, with a population of more than 37 million people, has a total of 1,080 practicing neurologists as of 2019. That number is worrisome." #COVID19
3/ @nilikm "if she gets ill with COVID-19 and is unable to work, the overhead of her practice would bankrupt her because, like all other physicians in Canada, she has no benefits: no sick leave, no pension. If she closes her practice, her 1,400 patients have no care."
One of our most challenging but also most interesting dogs, who has finally stopped eating walls. This is her response when I asked her to sit😂because she marched to own drummer. Tiffy #NationalDogDay
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
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
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