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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 Profile picture
@ZiadFazel
Sep 28, 2021 • 16 tweets • 13 min read • Read on X
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#COVID19AB Balanced Scorecard
Mon 27 Sep

If you remember my hurricane analogy from yesterday, today we emerged from a weekend without communications from Alberta Health.

There was no sunshine. No respite between bands. Only the 250 km/h eyewall.
@jvipondmd @GosiaGasperoPhD @RajBhardwajMD @TehseenLadha @drdagly @plasercalgary @GermHunterMD @kwburak @PfParks @dupuisj Test Positivity

4th Wave was unusual as Test Positivity was a steep, unhesitating rise.

⬆️not 📈

We have seen that frightening line with Delta all over the world.

Researchers sometimes change their graph to log scale and are shocked to still see it.

covid-tracker.chi-csm.ca
When Test Positivity stuttered in September, then peaked in mid-September (urban mask mandates & restrictions) experts with @PopAlberta kept warning of danger.

My analogy then was a 1000-km wide wildfire at 80 km/h.

Because there weren't strong province-wide safety measures.
So while Test Positivity in Calgary & Edmonton was:
• falling below 10%
• dragging down the provincial average
• masking the choppy rise in North, Central & South.

I remembered @GosiaGasperoPhD warning of (early) exponential growth of B117 Alpha in Jan, and Delta in May.
I'm just talking about leading indicators here: Test Positivity and New Cases.

We always knew the back half of the canoe - Hospitalization, ICU and Deaths- was still rising the roller coaster.

Canoes, Rollercoasters, Wildfires, Hurricanes... sorry about all the metaphors.
Looking again at the @ucalgaryCHI chart, notice how in all 3 previous waves, test positivity would stutter, maybe retreat a bit, and then keep rising.

4th Wave didn't get that, rising without a break from ~0.5% to 11%.

Our CMOH & Premier were beholden to their secret models.
Even India - hit so badly by the Delta variant images of people dying outside hospitals short of oxygen or ventilators - got back under some control.

Not Alberta. We plowed ahead, benchmarking to the worst decisions in the US and UK to cover our own.

coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/new-cases
So where does that leave us after the weekend?
• 29 new admissions to ICU*
• 23 deaths
• 265 people fighting for life in ICU

* 17% of baseline capacity in 1 weekend.
• From 1 cause
• We're not into flu season yet
• And have a long weekend coming

public.tableau.com/app/profile/jk…
Remember this graph from the 3rd-Wave presser? Where @AHS_media Dr Yiu said pre-covid record for a respiratory virus was 31 cases in 2016?

We just admitted 29 people into ICU. 1 weekend.

Alberta is in a hypnotic state. We don't realize how sadistically we are being treated.
Vaccinations.

Looks impressive, huh? That upswing in the last month?

Remove the 3rd doses, which are largely happening in continuing care for the elderly & most vulnerable.

Zoom in some more.

Upswing over. Fizzling out again.
What did GoA do in Sep to stop spread?

Predictably useless $100 incentive that had no effect but to divide Albertans.

alberta.ca/release.cfm?xI…

Bait-and-Switch "Capacity Increase" that was only a $36m taxpayer subsidy to private group homes & home care.

alberta.ca/release.cfm?xI…
This gratuitously frightening, dog vomit of a presser on Wed 15 Sep:
• measures effective at midnight
• Health Min reading Kenmore Canister Vac model 1407 Owner Manual into his chin
• 8pm emergency alert on our phones with link to useless website

alberta.ca/release.cfm?xI…
This meeting of Calgary Metro Region Board on 17 Sep was lauded for Mayor Nenshi response to the Foothills County Reeve's persistence at spreading ant-vax "bs".

(Nice diplomatic work by Chair @GregClarkAB too, trying to stay on topic and on fact.)

livewirecalgary.com/2021/09/24/lie…
The hidden value in that meeting was the metro area board trying to fix the dog-vomit from GoA two nights before:
• leverage Calgary efforts including great Q&A
• High River Mayor Snodgrass blasting GoA for putting his town's businesspeople in danger

8 days ago, this psychiatrist/neurosurgeon in UK wrote "how do you convince people that the people in power actually want them to die?"

See @jvipondmd #intentionallycruelwave or @DuaneBratt "self-inflicted"

IMHO: It's not incompetence; it's intent.

Thanks all, who read all this way as I built the long thread this evening.

Be good to each other. Protect yourself. As much as you can, behave as if there is a hard lockdown.

This is going to be like Italy or New York in Spring 2020.

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Nov 15
More evidence AB Health Min LaGrange never intended ANY vaccination in physician's offices continue past April 2024.

Feb 2024: she "specifically asked" Alberta Pharmacists Association if they could do it, even if beyond their current scope of practice.
@drDavidKeegan @JMeddings Screenshot of Alberta Lobbyist Registry search of "Alberta Pharmacists" showing their 9 Oct 2024 filing. Scroll to the right for the magnifying glass icon to see the report, which I cannot directly link.
Screenshot of top of "Alberta Pharmacists" 9 Oct 2024 Semi-Annual Organization Lobbyist Renewal Filing.
Screenshot from "Last 6 months" section from the filing, which reads: "Program or Policy: Alberta Public Health Vaccine Program We met with Alberta Health Public Health and Compliance Department to discuss community pharmacists participation in the administration of the influenza immunization vaccine and other public health vaccines. We met with Minister LaGrange in February, 2024 and she specifically asked if we could provide a list of potential public health vaccines that pharmacists could administer under their scope of practice but that the currently didn't have access t...
Screenshot from "Next 6 months" section from the filing, which reads: "Program or Policy: Alberta Public Health Vaccine Program We meet with Alberta Health Public Health and Compliance Department to discuss community pharmacists participation in the administration of the influenza immunization vaccine and other public health vaccinations."
@drDavidKeegan @JMeddings @JenLeeCBC @TheBreakdownAB @TehseenLadha @Albertadoctors For the evidence she lobbied them, rather than the other way around, search Alberta Lobbyist Registry for "Alberta Pharmacists" to see their 9 Oct 2024 semi-annual filing.

"Previous 6 Months" + "Next 6 Months"

Kudos @ABPharmacists for the transparency.

albertalobbyistregistry.ca/apex/f?p=171:9…
For background, see @JenLeeCBC excellent reporting, especially this tweet and my 4 replies to it, showing how Min LaGrange gamed Alberta Purchasing Connection to only put out an unprecedented RFEI for this, not an RFP as she falsely claimed.

@shoffmanAB

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Nov 11
ICYMI, my request Friday to Minister @AdrianaLaGrange to recoup $49.4m from MHCare Medical/Atabay boondoggle.

Sorry to openly copy AB reporters, but questions at her pressers are so restricted.
@alanna_smithh @Jantafrench @ByMatthewBlack @gthomsonink @MBellefontaine @JenLeeCBC
@AdrianaLaGrange @alanna_smithh @Jantafrench @ByMatthewBlack @gthomsonink @MBellefontaine @JenLeeCBC I wasn't aware that on 10 Aug 2020, then-Education Minister Lagrange had fired a pre-emptive deceptive strike at Alberta's Ethics Commissioner Trussler about the IFR chlorine masks purchased within the previous two (2) weeks from a company in her riding.

rdnewsnow.com/2020/08/10/lag…
@AdrianaLaGrange @alanna_smithh @Jantafrench @ByMatthewBlack @gthomsonink @MBellefontaine @JenLeeCBC Complaint alleged the Minister lied by claiming her political staff were NOT involved.

Justice Trussler cannot address "moral integrity" aka lying.

She concluded the Minister was protected by political staff claiming they interfered behind her back.

ethicscommissioner.ab.ca/media/2809/lag… On August 10, 2020, she wrote to the Ethics Commissioner to pre-empt an investigation, as the information about Mr. Radford, owner of IFR, being a donor and constituent in her riding surfaced. She denied having connections to Mr. Radford. She lied saying IFR was chosen purely on POC’s technical advice. She lied and said she only learned of IFR’s contract on Aug 8, after the press conference. She then tried to mislead the Ethics Commissioner saying none of her political staff were involved. I would like a full investigation conducted regarding this conflict of interest, in contravention o...
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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Nov 10
MHCare Medical
Supplies to Alberta Health Services 🧵

For those investigating this, especially HCW representatives like @UnitedNurses @HSAAlberta @gilmcgowan @Albertadoctors...

Health Canada's Medical Device Incident Database confirms some suspicions.

hpr-rps.hres.ca/mdi_results.ph…Screenshot of Health Canada database showing 289 results for "mhcare"
There are, as expected, MANY reports like this of Vanch mask problems.

Some mistakenly filed as PRIMED, but all correctly identifying importer MHCare Medical and/or the Beifa Group Chinese exporter printed on the box.

@John1MD @RajBhardwajMD Example of many Vanch mask reports
Examples of PRIMED masks assumed, but box identifying MHCare Medical or the Beifa Group Chinese exporter on the box.
Examples of no name listed for masks, but Beifa Group and/or MHCare Medical identified
A large number of POWDER FREE NITRILE EXAMINATION GLOVES that MHCARE MEDICAL CORPORATION DBA MRAICHE HOLDING CORPORATION imported from
SHIJIAZHUANG HONGRAY GROUP CO.,LTD.
with typical MHCare Medical problems:
• poor material or build quality
• skin inflammation, rash, etc... Screenshot of 2 of many results listing adverse reactions to the gloves
Screenshot of 3 of many results listing adverse reactions to the gloves
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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Nov 9
Minister @AdrianaLaGrange, Atabay + MHCare Medical have not delivered $49.4 million of the $70m paid up front for children's meds.

Increasingly unlikely.

Please get that back. We need the money for healthcare. @alanna_smithh @Jantafrench @shoffmanAB
theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta…"The provincial government has said it is working with the Turkish manufacturer to “explore options” to fulfill the remainder of the contract, but has repeatedly declined to provide additional details. However, in the e-mail from Mr. Van Dyne to Ms. Williams, he said they are hoping to fulfill the remainder of the contract – equivalent to $49.4-million – through the purchase of intravenous, or IV, acetaminophen."
You stated that GoA "bought the medicine with the best of intentions."

Only 13,700 of 1.5m bottles received were even distributed. AHS will NOT use them. We have 3-4 yrs of national demand in stock.

With good intentions now, please get the $49.4m back.

edmonton.citynews.ca/2024/01/10/opp…
Minister @AdrianaLaGrange, you rightly stated that you're "very much in favour" of companies getting contracts competitively through RFP.

MHCare Medical and Atabay got this business via sole-source. Not competitive.

So can we get the $49.4m back now?

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Nov 5
1. Danielle Smith ordered EVERY shipment of the $80m MHCare Medical/Atabay children's acetaminophen boondoggle to be AIRLIFTED at taxpayer expense.

2. It's likely these airlifts were handled by MHCare Medical too, with their usual profiteering off the Gov of Alberta.

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How do I know Item 1 above? Well, for starters, Smith told us in her opening PR stunt.

Stupid, wasteful decision. Even if you truly believed you were solving a shortage, you might airlift the first 1-2 shipments, while bringing the rest by ocean freight.

alberta.ca/release.cfm?xI…"Alberta’s government and Alberta Health Services are working with Health Canada on completing the drug establishment licensing approval process. Once the approval is granted, the medication will be delivered to Alberta over 10 air shipments. As soon as the medication arrives in the province, it will be distributed to community and retail pharmacies so that parents and caregivers can purchase it for their children. Because Alberta’s government has secured so many bottles of the pain and fever medication, it is expected that Albertans will be able to find it on pharmacy shelves in the s...
Why do I suspect Item 2 above? MHCare Medical was already the middleman between Atabay, Alberta Health, and Health Canada.

They tout their international logistics experience on their website.

Why would they give GoA's corrupt, lucrative business away?

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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Oct 30
When I finally got my hands on $80m Danielle Smith/MHCare Medical boondoggle children's acetaminophen, I weighed & measured it.

Thanks to glass bottle: 291 grams

250,000 bottles = 73 tons!

Smith's decision to airlift that to Alberta in Jan 2023 is case study in bad ethics.

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@TheBreakdownAB @LukaszukAB @JMeddings @PfParks The whole boondoggle is enough to kick out a gov and bring in Auditor General.

But Smith's decision to manufacture AND airlift these 250,000 bottles – without a child safety cap (!) – shows the worst of it in one incident.

Shameless Smith made an expensive PR stunt about it.
GoA admitted that the package design they + MHCare submitted for Health Canada approval did not have child resistant cap required by law since at least 2006.

But Smith decided to:
• manufacture 250,000 deficient bottles anyway
• AIRLIFT them here

alberta.ca/release.cfm?xI…Image
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