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Protect Our Province BC
@Protect_BC
Healthcare workers, researchers & advocates providing accurate COVID information & supporting evidence-based policies #POPBC
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Jun 4 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Coles Notes of today's presentation.
Register to access the recording at later time and view prior Long Covid presentations
iecho.org/public/program…
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Project ECHO Pediatric Long COVID: What We Know Post-Covid Primary Care Echo Program Matt Kadish, MD (RECOVER Trial Site Co-Principal Investigator) Jerry Larrabee, MD (RECOVER, Trial Site Sub-Investigator) Objectives Highlight the importance of studying long-COVID symptoms in pediatric patients Provide the current evidence of what symptoms have been attributed to long-COVID in pediatric patients Provide recommendations for prevention and symptom surveillance
May 30 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
Q: So what's @Protect_BC's May 30 2024 Briefing about?
A: Are Hospitals Making Us Sick?


protectbc.ca/livestream/
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Image of doors opening on a hallway in a hospital with lots of viruses, fungi, bacteria of all shapes, colours and sizes floating in the air. Poster has PoP BC's logo of a white heart with a red border and a grey outlined cross in its centre. Live Briefing: Are Hospitals Making Us Sick? Interview with Dr. Susan Lee, Dr. Victor Leung and Dr. Jean Warneboldt. Thursday May 30th, 2024 from 1 to 2 pm PDT. www.protectbc.ca/live Q: Isn't Covid over? I don't hear about it anymore.
A: Nope. It ain't over.
Cue the recent YVR wastewater signal.
Sep 14, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"We cannot risk further harm to children."

NEW: Please read this open letter co-written by @Protect_BC's @DrFiliatraultby and other signatories on the threat of a tripledemic this fall. Thanks to @BurnabyNOW_News for running this.
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#bcpoliburnabynow.com/opinion/opinio… "If provincial authorities don’t catch up to the best practice preventative measures being taken elsewhere, we are on track for a disruptive and deadly repeat of last fall."

Recall that the number of children who died during last fall's tripledemic jumped considerably.
Aug 5, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This study has some stunning findings: even among those who had COVID but no symptoms, there is tissue damage.
It suggests that we will see massive amounts of chronic diseases among people who had COVID infections in the future.
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 icemsg.org/2023/08/03/an-… This why Dr. Akiko Iwasaki has said we need to treat COVID as soon as possible with anti-viral agents such as Paxlovid.
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Jun 30, 2023 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
Lots of ongoing warnings for what is likely to come to BC this fall.theguardian.com/australia-news… Warnings from Japan...
Jun 25, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Treatment with Metformin, a common diabetic drug resulted in a “42% reduction in [COVID] ER visits/hospitalizations/death through 14 days; a 58% reduction in hospitalizations/death through 28 days, and a 42% reduction in Long COVID through 10 months.”

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 medrxiv.org/content/10.110… Another study found that Metformin reduced the risk of developing long COVID by 41 percent among people who are overweight and those with obesity.

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 thelancet.com/journals/lanin…
Jun 2, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
While other provinces expanded their Paxlovid criteria to save lives, BC's May 2023 Paxlovid guidelines remain the most restrictive in Canada with no change to the age restriction of 70 for vaccinated, non-immunocompromised and non-indigenous people.

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bccdc.ca/Health-Profess… Image About 4,800 US lives could have been saved during the winter 2021-22 SARS-CoV-2 Omicron wave if 5% of COVID-19 patients had taken the antiviral drug Paxlovid, estimates a modeling study published in the March 2023 JAMA Health Forum.

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cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/5000-…
May 31, 2023 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
TODAY: our informative live interview on the risks of Covid & Pregnancy.

Please join us at 12:30 pm for an hour with Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook. Free livestream is here: protectbc.ca/livestream/

We will livetweet the briefing here, so please follow along.
#bcpoli Welcome to our live tweeting session. We're so excited to be joined by Dr. Eastabrook today! She is a Maternal Fetal Medicine subspecialist & will talk about risks to pregnant people & fetuses. We'll wrap up with resources to protect yourself.
May 18, 2023 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Remember this:
theglobeandmail.com/canada/british… When @CDCofBC and PHO were too busy during #Omicron counting infections to prevent infections
End result: the 6 mo-4 yo in BC became the "most infected and least vaccinated".
Attack rate refers to infection rate causing the change in sero-prevalence ( #covid antibody response) Image
May 18, 2023 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
"The outbreaks come in the aftermath of a decision by Ministry of Health to lift mask mandates in health-care facilities. On April 6, PHO Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Dix announced an end to universal masking requirements in health-care settings." @juliemaclellan @burnabynow BC community surveillance program indicated high test positivity rate (16%) for #SARSCoV2 at the time mask protections were lifted in BC healthcare settings & seniors' LTC/AL homes. bccdc.shinyapps.io/respiratory_pa… BC Community Surveillance d...
May 16, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
"@CTVNews has spoken with some of the staff directly but agreed to conceal their identities for fear of repercussions, which has been a massive concern in the province: muzzled healthcare workers of all stripes describe a culture of fear" "fear for speaking out about the failures of the system, even when they’re solely advocating for their patients’ safety and care. @Fraserhealth has repeatedly told ED physicians to not openly discuss our ‘challenges’ with the public,” the group writes in its letter."
May 12, 2023 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
This is what happens when mask mandates in health care are eliminated and the public is given the false narrative that COVID-19 is no longer a threat.

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bc.ctvnews.ca/not-just-langl… Unfortunately the message the world heard when the WHO announced the end of the global health emergency, is that the COVID-19 pandemic is over.

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cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
May 11, 2023 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
"What the world’s governments have really learned from the pandemic is that they can ignore it. Many have simply stopped testing, stopped counting cases and deaths; after all, if you don’t count it, it doesn’t count." @TheTyee thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/… "Dropping non-pharmaceutical measures like masking may enhance the spread of COVID-19, but who will know without surveillance? "
#bcpoli @CDCofBC @adriandix @Dave_Eby
Apr 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“But if you actually look at what’s happening with hospitalizations, since Omicron subvariants emerged, it’s a giant wave that’s lasted not only much longer, but is also just as high as those we saw in 2021 or even higher at some points." @BlakeMMurdoch “It’s like a high tide that’s always elevated, and this steadier state can mean a higher total burden over time.” Especially so given our 🇨🇦healthcare system has a low bed count per population compared to most OECD country. Meaning no slack in healthcare system.
Apr 17, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
In BC Long Term Care Facilities mandatory masks and screening of all visitors for COVID was stopped on April 6.

Dr. Henry said “we don't have any outbreaks in long term care right now of influenza or COVID [in B.C.],"

But is this really true?

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cbc.ca/news/health/ma… BC CDC Covid stats show that seniors aged 80 plus continued to have high levels of hospitalizations and death from January 30 to March 27, 2023.

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Apr 15, 2023 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
Why do you feel like now is the appropriate time to drop masking in healthcare settings and LTC, Assisted Living homes? Cc: "In some parts of the country masking in healthcare settings is still mandatory, but in most provinces it's not or won't be for long. While many welcome the shift, human rights groups are concerned & some are asking this question, why do you feel now is the appropriate time?"
Apr 14, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Great time to remove mask protections in BC healthcare and LTC facilities. #bcpoli @CDCofBC "In BC, updated calculations based on wastewater tests and other surveillance methods suggest one-in-250 people are getting a new infection daily."
Mar 15, 2023 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
Long COVID is real.

1/17 The World Health Organization defines Long COVID as: “The continuation or development of new symptoms 3 months after the initial SARS-CoV-2 infection, with these symptoms lasting for at least 2 months with no other explanation”.

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Mar 14, 2023 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
We see you. We believe you. We care about you.
#LongCovid #LongCovidKids #LongCovidAwarenessDay Logo: International Long Covid Awareness text above a green Show your solidarity. Join in. Share.
Find the link for these sessions here:
longcovidawareness.life International Long Covid Awareness Day Twitter Spaces. Wedne
Mar 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
NACI and BC Provincial Health are not offering COVID vaccine boosters for the general public.
Only people who are in the "higher risk categories" will be offered boosters.
But when it comes to COVID, all people are at risk and anyone can get Long COVID.

1/6 Vaccine efficacy requiring hospitalization for COVID decreased after 4-5 months from 89% to 66% and from 83% to 43% for COVID patients requiring emergency or urgent care, in all groups even young non immuncompromised adults.

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 bmj.com/content/379/bm….
Mar 10, 2023 • 54 tweets • 15 min read
There is a briefing today at 1:30 pm with Health Minister Dix and Dr. Bonnie Henry.

We'll be livetweeting it here. Please follow along!

We hope media will ask about the growing risks of Long Covid as well as BC's rationing of boosters, Paxlovid and data.
#bcpoli Will media also ask re "hybrid immunity": Is it now the official recommendation that anyone who hasn't yet had Covid get infected in order to protect themselves from… infection? Vaccination doesn't lead to #LongCovid and other outcomes like heart attacks; infection does. #bcpoli