Omicron grows as steep as predicted.
And even earlier than in the model from Dec15

Please avoid large gatherings and all unnecessary contacts.
Pls wear N95/99
Pls get the vaccine/3rd shot
Pls don't do anything risky, as there may be no available ambulances.

1/
The virus is in the exhaled air and it can stay there even if infectious person left the room.

Don't inhale other people's exhalations:
1) avoid being around ppl from outside your household
2) make sure that rooms are ventilated and air is filtered
3) wear N95/99 respirator

2/
Please get vaccinated/get the 3rd shot.

Tell the government and public health that you don't want to 'live with the virus'.
Demand that they #EndThePamdemic in 2022, so that the next Xmas can be normal.

(WHO said that the world has all the tools to end the pandemic in 2022)

3/
Log 2 scale
If you don't have access to N95/99, CAN99 or elastomeric respirators,
you can improve the fit of a surgical mask with a brace. So that there are no leaks and you are breathing through the mask and not around it.

DYI braces and braces to buy eg. from here:
fixthemask.com/collections/all

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11 Dec
Possible scenarios for Omicron in AB if nothing is done.

We are at the nascent phase of new VOC spread (only 23 reported cases), when *a lot* can be done to effectively halt it or at least significantly slow it down.

Prevent more sparks from coming. Make the tinder less dry.
1/
Let's not do with Omicron what we did with Alpha and Delta. We don't need more deaths and suffering.

At this stage *preventing more importations* is essential.
Less fire starters --> smaller chance of a big fire

Travel Quarantine. Test. Vaccinate.
2/
Make the tinder less dry:

3rd doses, vaccinate kids, #FreeTheRATs, deploy airborne precautions (N95 for all, ventilation, CO2 monitors, HEPA air purifiers, education about airborne transmission)

Prevent super-spreading:
Caps on public & business gathering's sizes

3/
Read 9 tweets
14 Nov
Hey Alberta, @jkenney @CMOH_Alberta
5th time?

Can we pls get off the rollercoaster? Have the true normalcy back? Could you please not make the 5th wave?

Bad future vs. good future👇
All depends on if @jkenney & @CMOH_Alberta decide to use 'light-touch' measures to avoid 5th 🌊
Green ones below👇are light-touch minimally-invasive measures. We are not using them as much as we could. They work better if used early.
@jkenney @CMOH_Alberta -- it is on you to implement them and protect Albertans from 5th wave.

2/
Vaccines alone won't prevent the 5th wave. Countries w/ higher vaccination rate than AB but w/ insufficient public health measures experience increase in cases and hospitalizations.
(No 'decoupling' even in 88% vaxxed Portugal)

3/
Read 9 tweets
13 Nov
Who is responsible for protecting kids' health in our province?
In the future when those kids grow up, will current decision makers (all levels) be able to demonstrate that they did *everything possible* to prevent infections? Probably not.
1/
E.g. 1) Despite the knowledge that SARS2 is airborne, there are no airborne precautions at schools (or precautions appropriate for a pathogen that "can linger in fine aerosols and remain suspended in the air we breath"=PTCLIFAARSITAWB).

2/
So, no precautions against PTCLIFAARSITAWB at schools --> No real-time ventilation assessment, no air purifiers, no mandated and provided N95+ grade respirators for kids and teachers.

3/
Read 6 tweets
25 Aug
AB daily cases are doubling every 14 days.

At this rate AB can reach:
2000 daily cases on Sept 11
4000 daily cases on Sept 25

ICUs may be full around Sept 11 [Sept 01-Sept 27] (see next tweet)

GoA can act now and prevent deaths and suffering or again wait till ICUs are full. Image
'ICUs/daily cases' ratio is *not lower* than in 3rd wave. 7 day average stays above 7%.

In the 3rd wave ICUs were more than full (in debt mode - postponed elective surgeries and such) at 2000 daily new cases.

Hence we can expect ICUs full @ 2000 daily new cases or earlier.

2/ Image
Reopening in-person schools at the time when ICUs are about to be full is not safe.

AB has just 47 paediatric ICU beds.

We should now use all the tools we have to stop this spread. And then reopen safely.

3/
Read 6 tweets
16 Aug
Here are projections I made in May/June

Note: AH has access to data, computers, and internet even more than me. I have 1 brain. They have many brains to work on models and monitor global situation

We could have A (no COVID→normalcy back)
But GOA and AH chose B for all of us
1/
Please note how close the reality is to the centre trajectory projected 8 weeks ago, when overall cases were still going down
The spread of SARS-CoV-2 is HIGHLY predictable.
(If someone tells you otherwise, that only means that it is beyond their personal analytical abilities)
2/
Others have been saying the same thing as me. Below are models by Prof. Colijn. From *May 31* (!).

GOA and AH and some advisors must have seen them (that’s their job), but they did this: 🙈🙉 lalalala!, while implying that “the pandemic is over”.

theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

3/
Read 7 tweets
10 Aug
AB is in the #DeltaWave
Daily cases doubling time: 9.8 days

At this rate we can expect:
5000 daily new cases on Sept 14
8000 daily new cases on Sept 21
(pls see confidence intervals on the graphs)

5-8K daily cases is when we might expect ICUs full
...
1/
The link between cases and severe illness is not broken.
The ratio is different. But the correlation stays.

2/
In UK, hosp:cases ratio is now reportedly 4x lower.
In Israel this ratio is now 2.5-3x lower than in the 3rd wave.

In AB our ICUs were full at 2000 daily cases.
2000 x 2.5 = 5000
2000 x 4 = 8000

Hence, we could expect to have ICUs full at around 5000-8000 daily cases.

3/
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