Dr Markland is my favourite medical storyteller in Alberta, but I'm aching for the days when he can come home fulfilled from a great day at work, spend time with his family, then have the option to tell uplifting medical stories.

I tell stories with numbers.
@jvipondmd @GosiaGasperoPhD @RajBhardwajMD @TehseenLadha @PfParks @shazmamithani @GermHunterMD @plasercalgary @Lauren_Global @DuaneBratt Source: statista.com/statistics/476…

Many healthcare professionals, patients, scientists, families, activists...have had to tell ugly stories too.

And explain how a healthcare system is supposed to work, and what Premier Kenney & CMOH are doing instead.

youtube.com/channel/UCXWbl…
Dear @strombone1 - I hope you don't mind me referring to you for this analogy.

Most healthcare workers just want to make save after save, appreciated but not world-famous, and then go home to their families, and spend time recharging & enjoying life.

olympic.ca/team-canada/ro…
@strombone1 They want to be like this privately, or if called out in public, like this.
Instead, Alberta's healthcare workers are the world-class goalie, watching rest of team get pulled off the ice during sudden-death 4OT

1, 2 skaters gone - goalie yelling WTF at Coach
3,4 gone - goalie screaming up to GM & Owner
5 gone - goalie is begging to fans to get help.
In USA, leaders say "Hopes & Prayers" and "Don't exploit death for politics" when they must control guns.

Alberta?
• 2nd/3rd Wave "Personal Responsibility"
• 3rd/4th Wave "Get Vaccinated - Your Choice"
• 4th Wave "Endemic" and "Modelling"

Not real "Public Health Measures".
Correction: it isn't 816 Albertans in Hospital from COVID-19, it is 1084.

268 in ICU; 816 in non-ICU.
• Many of the 816 would be in ICU if it were not full
• So eg. Internal Medicine wards without Ventilators do their best to keep those folks alive until ICU spot w Vent opens

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30 Sep
#COVID19AB Video Analysis
From CMOH presentation to PCN 13 Sep 2021

Sorry - no scorecard for a couple of days - have to put that aside to get caught up on this, which has become urgent in chaotic weeks since.

I wanted to follow up on this thread on Deceptive Framing. 👇
In my 14 Sep thread:
• I quoted @cfrangou 13 Sep thread,
• who did some prescient reporting on CMOH's presentation to the Primary Care Network at 6pm on that night of Monday 13 September
• including the video, which was taken PRIVATE the next morning.

alberta.ca/primary-health…
I don't know who ordered it to be taken private: PCN, CMOH, or both. No explanation AFAIK.

Taking it private put more attention on @cspotweet video clips, and on my thread.

Over 314K views, over 7% of Alberta's population.

I'm not a Kardashian.

All y'all are suspicious...
Read 36 tweets
28 Sep
#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.
Read 16 tweets
27 Sep
#COVID19AB Balanced Scorecard
Stats reported Fri 24 Sep

This weekend feels like seeing a Cat 5 hurricane bearing down on a remote island on Fri evening, knowing we won't hear for some days until power & telecom are back, praying for few deaths & devastation when they're out. ImageImageImage
Except we're not a remote island in open ocean. We're in Alberta, supposedly a modern society.

The hurricane has not passed. We've just had outer bands pass through. Rain, wind, storm surge, etc.

The 250 km/h eyewall is still coming. Major casualties. Hail & Devastation. Image
Modern society? Let's compare AB to City of Chicago

Population:
AB 4.4m
Chi 2.7m City (9.6m Metro)

Daily Cases:
AB 1554
Chi 412

Test Pos:
AB 10.11%
Chi 2.9%

Hospital:
AB 1061
Chi 25

Avg Daily Deaths
AB 14.1
Chi 3.57

Fully Vax
AB 62.4%
Chi 57.4%

chicago.gov/city/en/sites/… ImageImage
Read 24 tweets
24 Sep
#COVID19AB Balanced Scorecard
Thu 23 Sep

Sorry for late start on this - was watching today's @PopAlberta broadcast for a third time. So many good shows there 👀

youtube.com/channel/UCXWbl… ImageImageImage
Last night between 4.16pm and 10.12pm, I assembled a monster Balanced Scorecard thread (rope?) of 31 tweets.

I wanted to give extra attention:
• We're becoming 2 different Albertas with COVID-19
• Non-ICU Wards have become ICU to prevent triage

👀

Finished reading ALL of it?

I'm going to build on it a bit. Remember my analogy that covid-19 under bad government is like riding a canoe on a rollercoaster?

We have two canoes now.
• Calgary and Edmonton, leading/front going down
• Rest of Alberta, leading/front going up.
Read 13 tweets
22 Sep
COVID19AB Balanced Scorecard
Wed 22 Sep

Publishing my 3 main graphs right away, then I will add analysis on each metric, going down the card, bit at a time.

Yellow highlights on scorecard = idea stolen from @jvipondmd: today's cases x case rate from

covid-tracker.chi-csm.ca ImageImageImageImage
Just finished watching @PopAlberta special on:
• protecting children too young to vaccinate
• learning that the risk in schools SEEMS to be scientific: #COVIDisAirborne but is ACTUALLY political
• Learn how to address this at home, school & your MLAs.

@PopAlberta R

Some people were surprised last night to hear Premier Kenney say R in Calgary & Edmonton was below 1.0.

True per GoA stats, but no thanks to Premier Health Minister, CMOH or SAG.

#yyccc & #yegcc enacted Mask Bylaws at the beginning of September.

That's why they have R<1.0 Image
Read 38 tweets
14 Sep
Last night @CMOH_Alberta gave a presentation to Alberta family docs, and I got a chance to see it and take screenshots before the video was set to Private.

Whenever a politician wants to give you "Context", be wary of Deceptive Framing.

Have a look at her graphs of BC/AB/SK.
Did you do that yet? No skipping ahead now.

I zoomed in for you.

See it yet?

The axis scales are not the same.
Here are the graphs exactly how they look at

health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epide…

The default shows every province on the same axis for fairness.

See that green "Relative scale". That compares each province to its own peak.

Click it. Gosh - every province looks equally bad now.
Read 8 tweets

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