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5 Sep, 10 tweets, 5 min read
This is a dodge by @celliottability who knows better as the health minister and a lawyer.
She's had six month to replace the medical officer of health for Haldimand-Norfolk during a pandemic and the Health Protection and Promotion Act REQUIRES her to do so EXPEDITIOUSLY.
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@celliottability It was exactly six months ago today -- March 5 -- that Dr. Shanker Nesathurai, then medical officer of health at @HNHealthUnit announced he would resign effective May 21.
So why is it that half a year later Elliott has not filled that position?
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thespec.com/news/hamilton-…
While the requirement to fill a vacancy does not specify a time frame, the legislature chose the word "expeditiously."
Surely, it does not mean a delay of more than six months during the worst pandemic in a century.
#COVID19
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ontario.ca/laws/statute/9…
So while the health minister for @fordnation is correct she plays no role in naming an "acting" medical officer of health, she is responsible for filling the position permanently and doing so expeditiously, a task she shouldn't tap dance around when she's six months behind.
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@fordnation Clearly, there's a direct path for Elliott/Ford to quickly replace an acting medical officer of health who opposes lockdowns and has made a litany of false claims with a permanent one who will protect the citizens of Ontario.
The only question is whether they will do so soon.
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For those interested in the law and the powers it rests in the hands of Elliott, I'd encourage you to read what I linked as well as this thread by @JacobShelley
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@JacobShelley For those who want to learn more about the acting medical officer of health who opposes lockdowns and who has made many claims that are not true, here's a detailed, sourced, overview:

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Elliott must act quickly and not only because we are wading into a Delta-driven wave of #COVID19 led by an acting MOH who's careless w/evidence and who opposes lockdowns. The health board includes a mayor whose leadership has been assailed:
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 cbc.ca/news/canada/ha…
The turmoil in Norfolk County hasn't been limited to its health unit or council: In July, council named a new chief administrative officer, its SIXTH since 2018.
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Elliott must step up quickly. Six months delay was treacherous, she had a legal obligation to find a replacement quickly, and her failure to do so has left the health of Norfolk County residents in the hands of an acting MOH whom Elliott knows poses an unacceptable risk.
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While @TorontoStar published a story Friday in which @OntLiberal questioned why @HNHealthUnit named as acting medical officer of health someone who opposes #COVID19 lockdowns, my review of his writings raises another concerning question:
Has he misrepresented evidence?
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@TorontoStar @OntLiberal @HNHealthUnit Consider this opinion piece written by @strauss_matt in October for for UK magazine @spectator whose right-wing leanings are as clear as the political affiliations of its past editors, including @BorisJohnson
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 spectatorworld.com/topic/medic-ca…
@TorontoStar @OntLiberal @HNHealthUnit @strauss_matt @spectator @BorisJohnson In that piece, Strauss misstates findings of studies and reports to build his case against lockdowns.
I use "misstate" and not "misrepresent" because the latter implies an intent to deceive and I have no basis to know his intent - errors may be the result of carelessness.
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Real-world American study of 91,134 people finds one dose of Pfizer/Moderna protects MUCH LESS against death/hospitalization then two doses in 3 or 4 week intervals.
The finding should raise questions about Canada delaying doses 16 weeks.

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Some health officials, including @Healthmac defend the delay pointing to a less robust study that counted as one-shot immunized those who had a dose but who were hospitalized or died before the two weeks that shot needs to build an immune response but now the verdict is in...
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The new study did NOT count people as having gotten one dose unless they were fine for 2 weeks before illness began. Those who got sick in the first two weeks were counted as not vaccinated at all. The one-dose group was limited to those who were health 2+weeks after 1st dose
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1/2 Public Health and private vigilance in Ontario is our 1st line of defence against #coronavirus If it falls short, we face a crisis. Epidemiologists estimate between 40 and 70% of adults will eventually get coronavirus. Even at the low end, that's 4 million people infected.
2/2/a If we borrow data from China, 20% of those infected needed hospitalizations. That works out to 800,000 hospitalizations in Ontario. Even if we cut that in half, that's 400,000 needing spaces in hospitals already so full, patients are treated in hallways ...
2/2/b So public health and private vigilance must slow the spread so hospitalizations gets stretched out over many months.
My analysis springs from that for Massachusetts by director of the @HarvardGH @ashishkjha - but #onpoli bed shortage is much worse

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1/4 #SuperTuesday -
(1) @JoeBiden is frontrunner, having swept the South, even edging @BernieSanders in Latino-heavy Texas, beating @BernieSanders twice in his New England backyard, winning in the prairies in Oklahoma and GOP-dominant Alaska and keeping close behind in California
(2) If this dynamic continues, Biden will win the nomination by a comfortable margin; the only places I seeing him getting beat by Sanders is the Sunbelt, where Bernie has won Nevada, Colorado and Utah, and perhaps the Pacific Northwest. Everyplace else is Biden land.
(3) That's a BIG "if" as dynamic can and do change. Now that Biden is frontrunner, he becomes the focus. He has a lengthy political history to attack and has shown himself vulnerable on the hustings by his struggles to speak clearly. The next debate, he will be under full assault
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