Yikes. This piece is a mess. It’s really just a thinly veiled attack on one doctor, Dr. Martha Fulford. The article also includes some of its own “false/misleading information”. Let me explain. 1/n

https://twitter.com/carlyweeks/status/1500550103744102401

Fulford is a pediatric infectious diseases physician who actually treats covid patients and has run covid vaccine clinics. That’s pretty impressive credentials when it comes to commenting on kids and covid, much more so than a lot of the docs who get quoted in the press.

Ontario medical experts are sounding the alarm that the policy of isolating everyone who is deemed a close contact of a COVID-19 case could grind society to a halt if it doesn’t soon change.

torontosun.com/news/provincia… “There was a moment in the U.K. where they struggled to keep things going because so many people were infected or exposed,” said Dr. Peter Juni, of the Ontario Science Table. “We need to find a way forward, and we need to practically plan it right now.”

Canadian parents would be well-advised to read what the NACI release on kids’ vaccines actually says — it is far less of a ringing endorsement than many would have you believe. 1/

canada.ca/content/dam/ph… “It is essential that children aged 5-11 years and their parents are supported and respected in their decisions regarding COVID-19 vaccinations for their children, whatever decisions they make, and are not stigmatised for accepting, or not accepting, the vaccination offer.” 2/

One piece of nuance that hasn’t been reported much is that the FDA committee that approved Pfizer in 5-11s asked if they would be allowed to first give it limited approval for only high-risk kids but the FDA said no, they would be voting on the question of all or nothing. “I do believe that children at highest risk do need to be vaccinated,” said Dr. James Hildreth, one of the 17 FDA committee members, “but vaccinating all of the children, that seems a bit much for me.”

Too many Ontarians never realized that “cases in schools” did not mean “cases acquired in schools”. But once you understand that, you begin to see how all of the arguments & misleading charts that have been used for months to scapegoat our kids & keep schools closed falls apart. As Dr. David Williams explained multiple times, COVID-19 was never really spreading in schools -- regardless of which wave or variant: torontosun.com/news/provincia…

O'Toole's climate change plan is a mess.

First of all, the Low Carbon Savings Account is ridiculous. At least Trudeau lets you spend the rebate from his carbon tax how you wish: Should a Conservative government be mandating private sector sales figures?

The latest Alberta comorbidity statistics reveal that 77.4% of persons who died of COVID-19 in that province were also struggling with three or more underlying conditions at the time of death. While the leading comorbidity was hypertension (found in 85.7% of deaths), 51.5% of the deceased also had dementia and 23% had cancer.

The reporting on cases in Ontario schools has been extremely misleading. Not enough people realize that those numbers do *not* mean cases that were acquired in cases. It simply means people who have tested positive who are also physically present in the school environment. 1/ If you want to know why Lecce, Dr. Williams and others say there has hardly been any in-school transmission at all, take a look at their open data page:

.@MichelleRempel just asked govt health officials at the Health Committee what inputs went into the "rocket ship" modelling released today and also why Canada's modelling is so out-of-step with other countries. They said they did not have that information on them. 1/ "Do you think it’s concerning that you can’t answer those questions at this hearing today?" Rempel asked as a follow up. The govt health official responded that they would table the requested info at committee next week.

This first image is of Canadian modelling just released by Dr. Tam. It shows an almost immediate and massive increase in cases like we've never seen before... unless "enhanced" measures are now put in place. (Please scroll down for image in next tweet.) Yet the CDC does composite modelling for the U.S. from 27 different prominent institutions and almost all of them show a continuing decline for the same period as Dr. Tam's chart shows.

Canada made pandemic playbooks — and we’re not following them

torontosun.com/opinion/column… Canada’s pandemic preparedness guides predict a situation worse than what we’re now experiencing with COVID-19, and yet their worst case scenario restrictions are milder than the ones we currently have in place

The University of Guelph did a study soliciting artwork from children / youth to gauge their emotions during the pandemic: childart.ca/art-work

Here are just some of the works.

While I clearly have the attention of teachers' union types who claim to care about science and facts, I'd like to use the opportunity to draw their attention to some recent writing of mine on the schools issue. See below: An updated guidance report from Sick Kids hospital on school reopenings in Ontario is sounding the alarm on the “significant harms of school closure” and discusses the need to “reduce the fear and anxiety in parents and children/youth.”

torontosun.com/news/provincia…

It's become clear that there are too many Canadians getting their news in an echo chamber, completely unaware that many experts here oppose lockdowns. This thread compiles news stories on these Canadian experts. I hope it's a useful resource that gets this news shared widely. “The COVID suppression view is becoming a marginalized view,” says Dr. Neil Rau. “Once you have an endemic level of COVID, the economic fallout and carnage [of much larger lockdowns] would be so great that it’s not worth it.” torontosun.com/news/provincia…

I'd like to offer a thread on what Dr. Robert Redfield, head of the CDC, had to say yesterday about school closures and what his remarks tell us more broadly about the lockdown Doug Ford and his cabinet are currently proposing for Ontario. “Clearly, the data strongly supports that K - 12 schools, as well as institutes of higher learning, really are not where we're having our challenges, and it would be counterproductive … from a public health point of view” to close them, Redfield said. washingtonexaminer.com/news/school-is…