1/25. THREAD. This past week was painful, stressful and heartbreaking for people across #Montréal and #Québec. This thread chronologically walks through one week of news. Begin. #polqc #polmtl #covid19 #mtlmoments
3/25. Monday, May 4. Montréal public health officer, Dr. Mylène Drouin, acknowledged “we’re not seeing a decrease in the epidemiological curve.” Québec public health director Dr. Arruda Horacio conceded, “we are not going down as we thought we would go.” #polqc #polmtl #covid19
4/25. Then there was @CityHallReport& #39;s must-read piece about a fax machine. “Unfortunately, up to now, we’ve been working with fax,” said Paul Le Guerrier, a physician in the infectious disease control unit of the Montréal public health department. #polmtl https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/using-a-fax-machine-the-painstaking-work-of-contact-tracers/wcm/0c6e354e-6bca-4278-a3c1-c117a0c1eece/">https://montrealgazette.com/news/loca...
7/25. Military here and we still face labour shortages. We were recently short 9,000 healthcare workers in the Québec network. On Tuesday, Legault said we were short 11,000 personnel, “the bulk of them missing from long-term care homes,” @CBCMontreal’s @katemckenna8 reported.
8/25. @seleross’s report that “Federal Training Centre” prison in Laval has worst #COVID19 outbreak among Québec federal prisons, with 96 positive tests and 63 active cases. A prisoner’s hunger strike at Bordeaux prison too ( https://www.noprisons.ca/ ).https://www.noprisons.ca/">... href=" https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/a-second-inmate-in-a-canadian-federal-prison-has-died-of-covid-19-1.4926031">https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/a-second-...
9/25. The next handful of posts are from Wednesday alone. “The situation in #Montreal is worrying,” Quebec’s public-health director, Dr. Arruda, said at Wednesday’s briefing. The data agrees. “Quebec& #39;s epidemic curve is not looking great,” @picardonhealth. https://twitter.com/picardonhealth/status/1258155744437964809">https://twitter.com/picardonh...
10/25. @BasemBoshra reported that, after appeals from racialized community groups, #Québec will start compiling race and class data. Will be important to see Montreal data. Look at place-based distribution (source: @CBCMontreal: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/covid-19-testing-montreal-masks-1.5561945).">https://www.cbc.ca/news/cana...
15/25. @vestevie @benshingler with vital insights: temp agencies with limited government oversight hire precarious, underpaid workers whose refugee status has been rejected once or twice. They are now on the frontline and getting sick for us - for all of Québec.
17/25. @DrSamirSinha reports Canada has highest mortality rate in care homes among 14 developed countries. See Denmark where 36% of spending on services in buildings like nursing homes, whereas 64% is on home and community-based care (OECD report, 2017). https://twitter.com/DrSamirSinha/status/1257382809473335297">https://twitter.com/DrSamirSi...
18/25. @Aaron_Derfel wrote, “authorities cannot afford to drop their guard in Mercier—Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, where more than 1,400 people have contracted COVID-19.” Deaths were a few times in the daily-double digits. Other potential blind spots? #polmtl https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/analysis-why-is-the-covid-19-death-rate-soaring-in-hochelaga-maisonneuve/wcm/3eed96f9-e2c7-417e-877c-1a0402e2edab/">https://montrealgazette.com/news/loca...
22/25. In Feb, Qué recorded lowest unemployment since in 1976 (4.5%), @jonmontpetit notes. Now at 17%, highest ever recorded and highest of provinces, reports @benshingler of @CBCMontreal: https://cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-record-job-losses-april-1.5561165">https://cbc.ca/news/cana... Try this interactive @MilesCorak dashboard: https://milescorak.shinyapps.io/Canadas-Labour-Market-Dashboard/">https://milescorak.shinyapps.io/Canadas-L...
23/25. As the week came to an end, independent data was released on case and mortality projections in #Quebec and #Montreal. I dare not comment on the report. That is best left to the research team themselves. PDF: http://www.marc-brisson.net/covid19-response/Epidemiologie-et-modelisation-evolution-COVID-19-au-Quebec_7-mai.pdf">https://www.marc-brisson.net/covid19-r...
24/25. That is sample of one week. I did not have room to fit everything in one thread. What news/data am I missing? Please comment. 112 deaths Wednesday in Qué alone is not just a number. These were people with stories to tell, smiles to share. This pandemic is an awful tragedy.
25/25. An eternal optimist, my week highlight was this vital reminder: “The health of anyone, anywhere, is important to the health of everyone, everywhere” - Dr. Tim Evans, Director, McGill School of Population and Global Health. Quote from @IHSE_McGill meeting, May 7, 2020. End.
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