Dr. Kieran Moore just told Ontarians everyone is getting the care they need so it's time to loosen controls of #COVID19
Has Moore spoken to patients whose cardiac surgeries have been postponed? Whose cancer treatments have been delayed?
Is Moore just the lapdog of @fordnation ?
Moore just said Ontario hospitals have no vacancies for medical and surgical patients -- beds are at 100% capacity -- but there is room for #COVID19 patients.
Shameful spin. People with cancer, heart failure and critical illness will die and suffer needlessly.
No @celliottability -> patients who can't get needed heart surgery and cancer treatments aren't just frustrated: Their lives and quality of life are slipping away because @fordnation is trying to placate his political base.
@celliottability@fordnation Why are restaurants reopening before surgeries resume, a report asks @fordnation
Ford dodges the question, blaming a previous government rather than face his own failings.
We do lack nurses but that means we must be more vigilant treating cancer and cardiac patients, not less.
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Dr. Kiernan Moore displays a shocking ignorance of science and even elementary school math as he threatens the medical officer of health for @NRPublicHealth Dr. Mustafa Hirgi for doing to much to protect students, teachers and the community against Omicron #COVIDisAirbornePH 1/4
While Hirgi will use carbon dioxide detectors in classrooms w/out HEPA filters to find out which lack necessary ventilation, Moore writes he is unaware of any correlation between CO2 and the transmission of #COVID19
My homework assignment for Moore: 2/4
The model was created by researchers at Imperial College London, the University of Cambridge and University of Leeds. There are more studies and models showing a link:
Are Londoners making trash assumptions about reduced #COVID19 in wastewater? Has Omicron really peaked? Some reasons to be cautious about declaring victory prematurely… 1/X
Wastewater is a good measure of overall prevalence of #COVID19 at the moment, but like any metric, must be used thoughtfully. Levels dropped the first week after winter holidays because schools were remote and there were fewer social gatherings.
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But schools have re-opened. The spread of the original virus was amplified between 6% and 13% last Spring in Ontario, @COVIDSciOntario found. Omicron is 19-times more transmissible, @fordnation is pressuring school boards to hide positive cases from parents of classmates.
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The wild fire that is the Omicron, already forcing Ontario hospitals to cancel critical surgeries and diagnostic tests, will be doused with lighter fluid as @fordnation rushes to repeat its mistake of Feb 2021 by reopening school too early, if media sources are correct.
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Schools amplified #COVID19 last year, @COVIDSciOntario found, after pediatric experts pushed the province to ignored the perils of reopening without safeguards. Those same experts pushed again to reopen prematurely, and it will aid a variant that’s 12-fold more transmissible.
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Fewer than 4% of kids ages 5 to 11 are double-vaccinated. None will be required to wear N95 masks in classrooms that may not be adequately ventilated, none will get access to PCR tests and no public health official will have the capacity to track and trace outbreaks.
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What should by a thrilling start to a new school year is instead a terror for many students and staff at @mcgillu whose administration had forced them to chose between risking death or serious illness or jeopardizing their education or livelihood. 1/4
@mcgillu McGill has refused a vaccine mandate, even in its own residences, isn't requiring distancing or masking by profs in poorly ventilated classrooms and had threatened discipline against faculty who want to go remote to protect immunocompromised family living under the same roof.
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@mcgillu The school has defended its reckless conduct with arguments that reveal a profound lack of understanding of science, #COVID19 and the law, creating a scarlet letter that won't weather well as it competes globally for students and faculty.
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This is a dodge by @celliottability who knows better as the health minister and a lawyer.
She's had six month to replace the medical officer of health for Haldimand-Norfolk during a pandemic and the Health Protection and Promotion Act REQUIRES her to do so EXPEDITIOUSLY. 1/X
@celliottability It was exactly six months ago today -- March 5 -- that Dr. Shanker Nesathurai, then medical officer of health at @HNHealthUnit announced he would resign effective May 21.
So why is it that half a year later Elliott has not filled that position? 2/X
While the requirement to fill a vacancy does not specify a time frame, the legislature chose the word "expeditiously."
Surely, it does not mean a delay of more than six months during the worst pandemic in a century. #COVID19 3/X
While @TorontoStar published a story Friday in which @OntLiberal questioned why @HNHealthUnit named as acting medical officer of health someone who opposes #COVID19 lockdowns, my review of his writings raises another concerning question:
Has he misrepresented evidence?
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@TorontoStar@OntLiberal@HNHealthUnit@strauss_matt@spectator@BorisJohnson In that piece, Strauss misstates findings of studies and reports to build his case against lockdowns.
I use "misstate" and not "misrepresent" because the latter implies an intent to deceive and I have no basis to know his intent - errors may be the result of carelessness.
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