Gregory Rose MD

Infectious Disease and Infection Control Consultant. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
I will not receive, share, or discuss personal health information

[Gregory Rose MD @DrGregRose]

Hey @FierteCapPride, #PrideProm is objectively awesome. Thank you for putting this on for the kids.

[Gregory Rose MD @DrGregRose]

Amid the weather and travel carnage, there is also a nationwide shortage of blood products. Please make #BloodDonation the most important gift you give this Christmas

https://t.co/KSNc4PlLTP

[Karima Khamisa @DrKhamisa]

@OttawaHospital is running low on blood products during the holiday season - please go online @CanadasLifeline to donate tomorrow - openings from 8 to 2 p.m.!

[Muge Cevik @mugecevik]

As the monkeypox virus (MPX) outbreak continues, a lot of data emerging in real-time & being rapidly disseminated (as well as misinformation). I complied the unfolding scientific data (with direct links to papers and threads) on what we (don’t) know so far. #IDTwitter 🧵(1/n)

[Gregory Rose MD @DrGregRose]

The 5-point plan, the report card, and the analysis of the parties' platforms can be found here: https://t.co/rbIMEqHVTn

[Gregory Rose MD @DrGregRose]

#OntarioVotes June 2. Health Care is the single biggest provincial expenditure. @OntariosDoctors have issued a 5-point #Prescription4ON developed with broad consultation. How do the parties line up?
#ONelxn

[Gregory Rose MD @DrGregRose]

Full report (including the plan, the report care and how it was developed) here: https://t.co/BeHHzLNH6M

[Gregory Rose MD @DrGregRose]

If anyone knows the person in this photo, I suggest reporting him to Ottawa Police Service. Read this whole thread - this person stepped over the line between “public nuisance” to “willful endangerment”

[Gregory Rose MD @DrGregRose]

This proponent of “freedom” is standing on the grave of a man who died for it. The grave Nathan Cirillo died guarding. Every protest has its idiots, but this is abominable

[Gregory Rose MD @DrGregRose]

If anyone is looking for that type of slightly hysterical laughter that can only happen when you have accepted that horrible things are happening …

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

The CDC is bored

[Gregory Rose MD @DrGregRose]

This tweet thread is the greatest thing ever

[Dr. Jennifer Kwan @jkwan_md]

Big Weather says there’s a snowstorm coming, but have you gone outside to do your own research?
There is no snow!🚫❄️
Wake up! #ONStorm

[Gregory Rose MD @DrGregRose]

FYI, if you made plans for in-person schooling based on the Thursday update, you need to revise them. This will be hard on those without childcare options

[Abdu Sharkawy @SharkawyMD]

BREAKING: @ongov to announce (imminently) schools will go online for the next 2 weeks. As bitter a pill for some who will struggle mightily during this time, this will afford some needed time to upgrade safety measures, defuse the surge of Omicron.

[Gregory Rose MD @DrGregRose]

@rnaguru @aspatrick @DrAmirPakdel @OttawaHealth Thanks for the inside scoop.

[Gregory Rose MD @DrGregRose]

@aspatrick @DrAmirPakdel @OttawaHealth Yes, it is definitely rising now, but we have been at record-breaking local case numbers for the last 13 days. If this was like prior surges, the wastewater numbers would have broken records 3 weeks ago

[Gregory Rose MD @DrGregRose]

@AntibioticDoc I am the designated wet blanket for my hospital. Who do you have in Edmonton? 😉

[Gregory Rose MD @DrGregRose]

This is the saddest I have ever howled with laughter

[Bantshire University @BantshireUni]

Good news: We’ve flattened the curve.

Bad news: It’s against the y-axis.

[Gregory Rose MD @DrGregRose]

@parsnipper As a society we idolize heroic last-ditch medicine ("Don't you die on me dammit!") and shun sensible day-to-day stuff. But the latter works better. Maybe the next MCU movie could be about a dietician, or a public health nurse?

[Gregory Rose MD @DrGregRose]

Cartoon me says: #omicron is exploding. Get your #booster ASAP

[Gregory Rose MD @DrGregRose]

And there you have it. Numbers nearly doubled in one week. Gonna be a rough winter. Get your boosters if you can, reconsider the Xmas parties, and go back to basics

[Dr. Jennifer Kwan @jkwan_md]

DEC 10: #COVID19 in #Ontario
1453 cases, 11* deaths, 910 resolved
39941 tests/day, 25644 pending, 4.4% pos
151 in ICU (90 on ventilator)🏥

+78,390 vaccinations💉
1,019,023 people with 3x💉
See thread for more graphs📉⤵️
#onhealth #COVID19ontario

[Gregory Rose MD @DrGregRose]

@curtisharvie Best case scenario is a highly transmissible, rarely serious infection that burns quicker than we can control it, but causes little harm. That seems unlikely however

[Gregory Rose MD @DrGregRose]

A very sobering read, suggesting very strongly that #Omicron will have significant #ImmuneEscape. Not welcome news

[Tom Wenseleers now @twenseleers.bsky.social @TWenseleers]

A short thread with some thoughts & calculations of mine about Omicron. Still preliminary, so don't take any figures as final, but it's a start... 🧵