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I’m putting this on social media with some reluctance but it’s important to provide a factual response both to the CMOH’s comments this morning and also to the open letter
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In follow up to some of the remarks I made to @CBCIsmaila on @metromorning this am...here's a plot of test positivity in Ontario over time. This is a pretty good
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I want to encourage everyone to get their flu shots. I do research on flu and have a lot of respect for the disease...it kills a few thousand Canadians every
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Canada lost its Covid vaccine under the FIPPA pushed through by PM Harper.Political journalists: you want a scandal?Here’s your scandal.https://canadians.org/fipa-info IMO this isn't the biggest Canadian vaccine fail. 10 years
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I strongly recommend that parents and teachers read the statement on kids and covid by German and Swiss virologists, and the thread by Dr. Eckerle below. https://www.g-f-v.org/node/1326 .https://twitter.com/EckerleIsabella/status/12978
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Ontario’s school opening plan is not a “strong plan”. It’s a weak, incomplete, under-resourced plan that continues to be improvised 25 days (thanks to delay) before school opening. It will
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I'm not sure if anyone's in the mood for this, given the state of N America right now, but I keep getting asked whether another wave of COVID-19 is "possible".I
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This morning's Canada forecasts show a lot of good news and some setbacks. The East looks good: NB and NFLD are consolidating, with R firmly below 1. NS is
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Just a point of clarification...the Canadian wave-1 trailing off in early May would be the result of physical distancing. The "paradox of prevention" is that this will have maintained a
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Corresponding with a journalist from SW Ontario just now, made me look up the numbers. Some Ontario hot spots are those that share border with Michigan. In infectious disease modeling,
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The numbers are just staggering: on March 15, 2020 the United States had 60 COVID-19 deaths. 31 days later the total is approaching 30,000 deaths. The average number of deaths
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This is figure is from a paper just submitted to CMAJ, but I think it's important for people to see this.The green curve is incidence of death in LTC by
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