Former emergency physician, Vancouver
Member Protect Our Province BC
@DrFiliatrault@zeroes.ca
Mar 7 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
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!
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.
May 26, 2023 • 29 tweets • 6 min read
Worth dissecting /via @globeandmailtheglobeandmail.com/canada/british…
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.
May 25, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Jan 29, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
A good read from @shazmamithani thestar.com/opinion/contri… via @torontostar
"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."
Jan 28, 2023 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
There has been a lot of discussion on twitter about who is being and who should be interviewed by media when it comes to #Covid_19 "experts".
It is easy for everyone to be biased, follow on twitter or listen to, interview those who think like us, whom we relate to. Unfortunately that can cause us to focus on single aspect of a complex problem. It can create large dark spots in our vision, and gaps in our understanding.
Dec 5, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
"We have not had a single 🇨🇦 MHO & Dr. Tam say the word "Airborne! If you misdirect policy on the underpinnings of a crisis... not being able to talk about airborne transmission for #COVID, you are going to fail! Because science underpins everything... We are failing." @jvipondmd
"If the physics, biology and chemistry underpinning your policy decisions do not support your policy decisions, you're gonna fail, and we are failing."
Oct 12, 2022 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
“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.
Sep 15, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Agree with this we cannot blame schools for high rates of #Covid among BC youth. We need to blame the BC provincial health officer. 1/
"Henry says some youth were becoming infected when they were not eligible for a vaccine" Whose job was it to buy time and keep them safe until a vaccine was available for them, 5-11 or 0-4 years old? 2/
Aug 30, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Problem in BC, is that we are not testing and thus cannot adjust #COVID protections based on case positivity rate. True for community, schools & universities. @CDCofBC policy: Don't test, Don't tell, Don't show.
Public assumes all's good and @CDCofBC must be doing a great job. 1/
Let's be clear, it's a choice @CDCofBC is making to NOT open up pcr testing, to NOT collect & show Rapid Tests Data. BC capacity is 20,000 pcr (MSP) per day. Last BC Covid sit. report (wk 32, Aug 7-13), showed 4,500 MSP funded pcr in a week. Untimely report received Aug.25 2/5
