“Focusing on Covid morbidity/mortality is bad b/c…to protect older Cdns has come at high cost to our youth” Dr. Krajden
In BC, our public health leaders have protected neither seniors nor youth.
BC Public Health leaders have not protected our seniors. They have manipulated the definition of outbreaks in LTC, and left it at the discretion of the Medical Health Officer of the regional health authority, or their official designate, to even declare an outbreak.
Guess what happened? Some Health Authorities have had little to no outbreaks declared since week 1 of 2022. Spot the missing colors after week 1.
Strange how that works, MORE contagious variants and LESS outbreaks, with ongoing abysmal LTC Infection Control protocols based on droplet & contact spread, no #N95, no #CleanAir, Covid + with Covid - roomate, etc.
As for 60-69 yo seniors, why were they not offered a 4th vaccine dose much earlier, as was done in other provinces? 60-69 yo have 69% of the 70-79 yo's admission numbers for 2022 and just about same number of ICU admissions for 2022. BC Sit. Report wk 52-38 and @CDCofBC data
As for protecting youths, it starts with making schools and early childcare education (ECE) centres #COVID safe.
Interestingly this number of C-19 cases in schools was not captured in B.C. Centre for Disease Control school situation report at the time. How strange?
On par with HA not advising parents and educators of #Covid exposures at schools. Prompting BC School Covid Tracker moms to step in.
And then there's the "pièce de resistance" of just how well youth were being protected by BC public health leaders. Same leaders who repeatedly stated that schools were safe at every press conference, all the while they were counting how many children were getting infected.
No, children did not get infected from their parents. They infected them. That is why the seroconversion rate (attack rate) of children was higher during the Sept/Oct 2021 to March 2022. "Children were the most infected and least vaccinated" the study author stated.
How many children, parents or educators will have developed #LongCovid as a result of unsafe schools? We won't know as our PH Leaders don't seem to believe #LongCovid even exists. If they did, how could they have let this happen?
Sadly it is not just our seniors and youth that our BC public health leaders #bcpoli#bced and @CDCofBC are failing to protect. Data from WorkSafeBC.
"Note that occupation information is lagged, due to the recent increase in COVID-19 claims and operational capacity." Begs the question what are BC Public Health leaders doing to protect these workers?
By refusing to accept that SARS-CoV-2 spreads through aerosols, all 🇨🇦public health officials put children & educators [and their families & communities] at risk of repeated COVID infections, and now measles in schools.
What's next, TB?
By doubling down on droplet spread of SARS2, 🇨🇦public health officials have prevented improvements to schools' indoor air quality, that would have also helped against measles.
Instead in 2024, in 🇨🇦, the public is told by public health to wash their hands. It's a disgrace!
People need to listen to the "real experts", people like Prof. Linsey Marr, an environmental engineer examining indoor & outdoor air quality & airborne pathogens that affect human health. Working at the intersection of atmospheric science, public health, & infectious disease.
Dr. KW : « la pandémie est définitivement finie »
Vrai ou Faux?
Faux! Voir le graphique ci-dessous.
Source: inspq.qc.ca/covid-19/donne…
Dr. KW : « Covid, c’est devenu un virus respiratoire comme les autres »
Vrai ou Faux?
Faux: Ce n’est pas un virus respiratoire, c’est un virus vasculaire.
Source: heartandstroke.ca/articles/a-qui…
Attended this talk yesterday.
@BlairWilliams26 presentation particularly resonated
with me. From 19:15 to 28:56
It offers a path to possibly get out of this unsustainable pandemic situation.
Source @BlairWilliams26
Shows the disconnect of what acceptable number of Covid-deaths were for Australian & what played out.
Reminded me of last fall's survey stating British Columbians most willing in Canada to return to masking, and yet BC PHO & #bcpoli let tripledemic rip.
Source: @BlairWilliams26
For Australia, and yet fits for BC and many other countries.
First off thank you to @MoriartyLab who is the only person providing early indicators for people in Canada to be able assess their risk of Covid infection in their province/territory.
“PHO Bonnie Henry said in statement that her team continues to closely monitor # of lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases, severe illness & hospitalizations bcse of COVID-19 outbreaks, as well as complete whole genome sequencing on all + COVID-19 PCR tests & viruses [in] wastewater”
There is no doubt that physicians who sign an open letter or speak out can face retaliation. Retaliation takes many forms: your OR time gets cut, you're called into dept head's office, hospital privileges are threatened... | Globalnews.caglobalnews.ca/news/9720440/s…
What normally happens is a courageous senior physician will step up and be the face for the group, as they are at the end of their career and can walk away. Like happened here. Thank you Dr. Urbain Ip.
Lived through something like this years ago. Very stressful. Found out after the fact, the other tool leadership uses, is tarnish physicians' reputation.
"Every Canadian needs access to a family doctor. Governments need to step up and commit to doing what’s right for the system, instead of focusing on Band-Aid solutions."
"We need a true understanding that the best patient care is care in the community, and that in part, hospitalization for preventable illness is a failure."
I'd had we need a culture change from within and from outside healthcare.