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4 May, 5 tweets, 3 min read
The second contingent of healthcare workers heading from Newfoundland to Ontario is gathering in the military hanger, ready to board a cargo plane. They’ll be relieving workers at the William Osler Health System in Brampton #covid19nfld Image
Premier Andrew Furey says 40 people have volunteered to go. It’s been matching the needs in Ontario with what the healthcare system here and release.
He doesn’t know how many people total will go #covid19nfld
Furey says he hopes that this encourages to send their own healthcare workers to hotspots if they have the capacity #covid19nfld
Dr Art Rideout is a reconstructive surgeon. He says he’s going to provide supportive care to doctors there, he says he was raised to help if he can. He’s been to Haiti before with Team Broken Earth #covid19nfld Image
Michelle Murphy is a registered nurse who’s going. She never dreamed she’d be doing a mission in her own country, she’s used to volunteering in disaster zones in other countries #covid19nfld Image

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Peter Cowan Profile picture
6 May
*BREAKING* The Greene report is out and it's recommending a huge change in how government operates. Tax increases and big cuts to government. It's called "The Big Reset" #nlpoli
“The Big Reset” it focuses on four main areas:
- Reimagining government and governance
- Transition to green economy
- Focus on technology and skills development and supporting seniors
- Improving finances through tax increases and cuts

#nlpoli
When you look at the total debt and obligations it’s $47.3 billion. That means each household owes $215,000
If unchecked we will add another $7 billion in debt in the next 6 years. Moya Greene says that’s unsustainable #nlpoli
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Peter Cowan Profile picture
5 May
I'm anticipating a lot of these types of questions. They're leaving it up for people to decide. It seems to be a two part test:
1. Did you have to go to work, even at alert level 5?
2. Did you interact with the public?

If you answered yes to those two, book your shot
Here's the link from Eastern Health to book your shot if you're " first responders and frontline essential workers, specifically those who have had direct contact with the public during Alert Level 5, who cannot work from home, and who are 16 and older"
portal.healthmyself.net/nleasternhealt…
If you're wondering if you qualify consider the reasoning. They want to target people who are at higher risk because even in a huge spike in cases, they still have to go to work and interact with people, or if you got sick critical services like power and water shut down
Read 4 tweets
Peter Cowan Profile picture
5 May
It's your weekly COVD-19 briefing
There are 6 new cases.
-Three in Eastern, all related to travel
-Two in western, one related to travel, one contact of a previous case
-One in Central, contact of previous case
Four recoveries, so 58 active cases.
Two in hospital
#covid19nfld
There has been no indication of onwards spread of COVID outside of affected households says Dr. Fitzgerald.
She says that shows people are following the rules around isolation #covid19nfld
The risk of an outbreak remains high says Dr. Fitzgerald.
She says the team remains focused on the risk from travel.
She says people need to keep their contacts low, don't share food etc #covid19nfld
Read 28 tweets
Peter Cowan Profile picture
3 May
Central Health has now lowered the age to get vaccinated for COVID-19, now anyone 60+ can get it, as well as anyone who's pregnant:
portal.healthmyself.net/nlcentralhealt…
#covid19nfld
Labrador Grenfell Health is also adding pregnant people to it's list of eligible people to get vaccinated (it had already opened to people 60 + and all other priority groups)
portal.healthmyself.net/nllabradorgren… #covid19nfld
Western Health is now taking appointments for Pfizer/Moderna doses for people 60+ and pregnant people
portal.healthmyself.net/nlwesternhealt…
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Peter Cowan Profile picture
23 Feb
How is NL doing on the vaccine roll out? Let's take a look at the numbers.
When it comes to doses received per capita, we're on par with most provinces, at about 5,000/100k people
But more of our vaccine is sitting in freezers than most 1/ #covid19nfld
Of the 24,000 doses received in NL, 16,500 have been administered, that's 67% of doses used. The only province worse is NS (58%). Saskatchewan has administered 104% of their doses (because they've extracted extra using special syringes) #covid19nfld
NL has been holding back second doses in freezers (other provinces haven't), so 4,232 doses are reserved for that, but that leaves 3,700 doses in freezers that aren't accounted for that could be administered #covid19nfld
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23 Feb
There are 15 new cases of COVID-19 today, all in the Eastern region.
There are 372 active cases, thanks to 50 new recoveries today
There are 5 people in hospital, 2 are in the ICU
#covid19nfld
Public Health is asking people on AC 7484 from Toronto to Deer Lake on Feb 19 to get a covid test, this is connected to the case in Western announced yesterday #covid19nfld
The province has gone back to reporting how many people are in the ICU (after the media pushed the issue yesterday) bringing it in line with other provinces that report these numbers #nlpoli
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