Thread by @drsusanshaw

Some strange/very wrong claims going on in replies to some of my tweets

Here’s some #COVID19SK facts
✅NONE of the 75 people in SK ICUs today are due to a vaccine adverse event
✅>75% of all SK ICU beds are looking after people w COVID
✅There are no empty @SaskHealth hospitals

✅COVID PCR tests are absolutely specific for COVID. That’s the whole point of PCR. We DO know a +COVID test isn’t any other virus
✅A +COVID test is >99% truly positive
✅A -COVID test could be a false negative (~30% rate) Could be too early, not enough virus on swab…

✅Delta is so dominant it is no longer of any value to check each & every positive test to confirm it’s delta
✅We are looking for other variants: Active surveillance for the next VOC is happening w testing of specific & random samples. (There will be a next…)

✅This is, still, not the flu. (Good news is wearing a mask, physical distancing & getting the flu vaccine will help you & all of us be safer)

✅Bad “science” exists & is sadly used to prey on many. Many “experts” pushing these theories personally profit from the mis & disinformation campaigns

✅SK physicians, nurses, epidemiologists, have absolutely nothing to gain from any of this. We are working together to try to keep you & the people you care about safe so we can all get back to whatever new normal is possible

✅“Just asking questions” is an established misinfo tactic. Ask yourself what is the questioner trying to gain by creating such doubt & fear? Bad “science” exists & many pushing this are also pushing unproven & potentially harmful products