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Tyler Black, MD

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Feb 11

Bizarre new trend: painting fears about the virus (thousands of deaths daily, approaching 1M us deaths, no current end in sight, vaccine effectiveness but waning over time) as "unreasonable" and "unsustainable."

What a weird form of gaslighting.

I totally agree with tamping down the 🚨alert🚨 style messaging, but it's not "fearmongering" to acknowledge the real thing to be fearful of.

As far as I know, a virus killing thousands per day, mutating, and creating problems for our vaccines while much of the world still not vaccinated is kinda fearful.

Isn't it smarter to acknowledge the fear about the real thing and do realistic things to impede that thing?

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Tyler Black, MD

@tylerblack32

Feb 10

@QdQwerty

Thrilled to announce that with @QdQwerty and colleagues, we have published very timely description of pre-pandemic mental health. Congratulations to Dr. Alison Lee for the hard work on the publication, and proud to be a part of it.

Let's take a look!

academic.oup.com/pch/advance-ar…

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In this study, we took a look at the types of mental health presentations for kids over a 3y period. We used the HEARTSMAP, a reliable tool for helping emergency departments document psychosocial assessments and help with treatment planning.

jpeds.com/article/S0022-…

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In total, we looked at the HEARTSMAP data for 1,530 kids.

Broken down by the HEARTSMAP domains:

PSYCHIATRIC: 40% with severe concerns
SOCIAL: 27% moderate/severe concerns
YOUTH HEALTH: 22% moderate/severe concerns

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Tyler Black, MD

@tylerblack32

Feb 10

I've offended some with comments on mental health expertise; and I should clarify. I do not mean to rob clinicians of *experience* (for example, many ER docs or pediatricians will see mental health concerns). And maybe even hundreds of cases per year!

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However, expertise is different than experience. Most of physicians would (if they could??) refer to experts when they need expert care for those problems. In the same way, despite seeing many kids with heart problems, most pediatricians are not experts in cardiology

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The problem is that experiences are shaded by our biases externally and internally, and expertise typically involves a foundation of theory, specific knowledge, and enough experience to balance complicated sets of information and render an expert opinion.

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Tyler Black, MD

@tylerblack32

Feb 10

A long time in the making, and the legal and critical importance for dealing with the pandemic as we enter year three.

So proud of my province. As of March 24, 2022, ALL regulated health professionals MUST be vaccinated.

#bcpoli

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This is so important to protect universal access to all Canadians, including those who must be protected through OUR vaccination.

As they say in trucker, honk honk.

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The order applies to:

acupuncturists

audiologists

chiropractic doctors (chiropractors) (78% voted against in a non-binding resolution, so a huge win)

certified dental assistants

dental hygienists

dentists

dental technicians

dental therapists

denturists

dietitians

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Tyler Black, MD

@tylerblack32

Feb 9

@vivek_murthy

even the surgeon general @vivek_murthy ..

abcnews.go.com/Politics/surge…

Though expression of concern is always OK, let us not be swept up by one-sided and biased narratives of what the evidence is showing.

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We have significant evidence emerging that many of the dire outcomes decreased, and there are nuanced changes (not devastatingly huge) both positive and negative. An excellent review of the evidence and its problems here.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

add in this incredibly detailed data from Ontario (canada's largest nation; generally strict school closure measures) shows some changes up and down (-50% to 28%) in various measures.

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jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

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Tyler Black, MD

@tylerblack32

Feb 9

https://twitter.com/nicholaschadi/status/1491416207781953537

A well balanced, expert review of quality of evidence limitations, the mixed nature of results we're seeing, and the implications of all of this as it pertains to "Covid-19 impacts on youth mental health."

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https://twitter.com/nicholaschadi/status/1491416207781953537

"Longitudinal findings paint a more nuanced picture than some cross-sectional studies from the early stages of the pandemic, though there is reason to believe that there could be long-term impacts on youth mental health, especially in more vulnerable youth."

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Compared to some very one-sided evidence reviews from the Canadian Paediatric Society and the Royal Society of Canada, and the awful #urgencyofnormal document, this review highlights the complexities and nuances.

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