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I think @ASPphysician and I experienced a mind-meld today. He is absolutely right that risk of VITT is higher than the upper bound in previous NACI risk analyses. I also

Now that NACI's guidance is out I am going to say that unless you are at elevated risk of SARS-2 right now due to life circumstances, I will reiterate that

Ontario will apparently ram through the extension of Dr. Williams' appointment at CMOH in the legislature today, some time around lunchtime.Thanks to the AG's report, we now know that Dr.

A thread...great news on the vaccine front this week, but perhaps a good time to remind folks that this is NOT the new normal, and that pandemics have a beginning,

This is a great question. Here’s my responsehttps://twitter.com/dianaberrent/status/1330255535808122881?s=20 The idea of vaccines is to get you to immunity without having to go through the risk and discomfort of illness, and

Schools are also an upstream enabler if the rest of our economy in a way that bars, gyms and restaurants are not.https://twitter.com/SarahAElton/status/1322137070228414465 Look, I’ve been saying for months now that

Asked by a friend to comment on the reasonableness of the IHME forecasts for Canada (30+k deaths by Feb). (https://covid19.healthdata.org/canada?view=total-deaths&tab=trend). The IHME model is impressive... And again, based on the

Global R(t) has been remarkably stable since the first wave. Here it is plotted against global doubling time. Will try to unpack this further when I get a chance but

This is amazing. We're headed into the second wave of a once in a century pandemic. Ont and Qc have been backstopped by the feds. Now here come the Cons

Thanks to the friend who reached out to suggest that having my own dedicated troll army suggests that our messaging and information are effective. That's a nice shot in the

A brief thread in support of @TOPublicHealth 's announced decision to stop contact tracing right now (and hopefully be allowed to focus on the kinds of population-level interventions @epdevilla and

The epidemiology of covid in Ontario is very dynamic right now, both in terms of actual disease and in terms of testing. We need to consider both to understand what