Leading indicators continue to show accelerating spread of infection.
7-day average Test Positivity 11.73% against all-time record 11.75%.
Severe Outcomes: Hospital, ICU and Death all surging faster than ever. Obviously NOT Decoupled.
ICU Capacity taking a huge hit.
169 Albertans just with COVID-19, against total ICU capacity for all needs 173.
Look at the difference two days makes on the curve. See also comparison to AHS CEO Dr Yiu charts on 17 May 2021.
Great presentation by Sarah Mackey of @ab_vax who teaches that we can't just look at the unvaccinated as one big blob, and just write them off.
IIRC, she says we have to look at different reasons:
• Access
• Complacency
• Hesitancy
And count the removal of barriers, not 💉
@ab_vax Working from AB Health's published stats, I provide this Vaccine Effectiveness by share of population.
• Fully Vax, Partly Vax, No Vax
• Hospital & ICU Case Rates
• Risk Ratio (how much lower your risk as you get your shots)
• Odds Ratio (how much worse than fully vax).
Correction: 54 Albertans died of Covid-19 in the last week, not 49 as I had shown earlier.
Tied with Ontario.
Alberta's 12% of 🇨🇦 population has 33% of the Deaths.
@kim_siever @BarryHunt008 @alanna_smithh @ByMatthewBlack @PfParks @JMeddings @DanielleLarivee @gilmcgowan @reportrix @DuaneBratt But until last week, when they succeeded at muzzling my friend Nate Pike @TheBreakdownAB (I can't even tag them on this!) as part of their $6m suspected SLAPP, I hadn't looked into it the way I sometimes do.
@kim_siever @BarryHunt008 @alanna_smithh @ByMatthewBlack @PfParks @JMeddings @DanielleLarivee @gilmcgowan @reportrix @DuaneBratt @TheBreakdownAB It appears Orion Registrar Inc certified or re-certified MHCare Medical on 25 Nov 2024 for "Distribution of Medical Devices Class I, II, III, IV".
With the sad news last night that all of @TheBreakdownAB YouTube content would be taken down Tuesday night, I had a look at my favourite guest appearances on the show.
See 'em before they're gone if you're interested.
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On 1 Jan 2023, I covered GoA's questionable procurement of masks & respirators since 2020.
I didn't just comment on MHCare Medical's products, but also Orpyx, Shanghai Dasheng, @CAPPEM2 and 3M, and many of my comments are quite positive.
On 22 March 2023, I applied the 5Ps of Marketing to analyze AB Health/ AHS/ MHCare/ Atabay scandal over children's acetaminophen & ibuprofen meds.
Dec 2022 v Mar 2023
I believe more has been revealed on that scandal since, and maybe even recent news.🤔
Happy Sunday. For those looking for the full 17-page Statement of Claim from fired AHS CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos' lawsuit against AHS & AB Health, this CityNews story allows free download without scribd account.
There are parts of the S/C on topics about which my tweets get widespread attention –
especially the overpriced, late and dangerously substandard kids meds that GoA wants you to think came directly from Atabay –
but in reality came through markup middleman MHCare Medical.
On my own initiative, I'll be cautious, at least until Statement of Defence is filed, because I don't want to unintentionally rebut in advance a stupid defence that GoA/AB Health/AHS might rely on.
No idea whether GoA will use $$$ external counsel, as they did in CM v Alberta.
Personal safety was/is a concern for me too, since 2020, because I was proving the Vanch masks did not even meet ASTM Level 1 standard that AHS claimed they did, for over $200m of PPE from Mraiche Holding Corporation.
@kim_siever @TheBreakdownAB @alanna_smithh @JenLeeCBC @ByMatthewBlack @gthomsonink @Lorian_H @SamirKayande @reportrix @TheTyee @nenshi @sameo416 I started that thread on 22 Jan 2022, after responding to Dr @jvipondmd asking about them on 13 Jan 2022.
Raised the alarm to everyone I could, showing my evidence, in real time.
Guess how frustrating it is to me, a professional engineer + parent, to confirm the $$ behind this.
Yesterday, Ministers Fir & Turton trotted out GoA's canned talking points on AB Health/AHS procurement scandal to media and public for the first time, and I wanted to point out certain problems with it.
UCP gov's strategy obvious from their spin: refuse all comment until both the AG's "expedited review" and this internal coverup, I mean investigation, are done.
Then this antidemocratic insistence on "1 question, 1 followup". This isn't the CMOH giving a daily COVID update.
As someone who successfully went to Auditor General + Alberta Securities Commission about Alberta Research Council wrongdoing ~20 years ago, I wanted to share some tips based on what I read in Premier Smith's letter on 8 Feb 2025.
The OAG will not expedite a "review" for anyone. They have disciplined processes to follow, and I hope insiders will give them lots of threads to pull.
We in the public will need to be patient. Good audits & implementation take time. Maybe even years.