VOCALottawa

Voices of Canadians about Lyme Disease (VOCAL) is a grassroots group of people living with Lyme Disease and those deeply affected by it.

[CanLyme @CanLyme]

The same head in the sand, behind closed door policy that has destroyed so many people's lives with Lyme disease. Canadians are lab rats for the US CDC

[VOCALottawa @VOCALottawa]

@RosieBarton So much for Dr. Tam’s directive for Canadians to not travel to cottages...

[VOCALottawa @VOCALottawa]

@PattyHajdu @PattyHajdu Canadian Doc’s treating #COVID19 patients need access to potential treatments now
https://t.co/L49NCfiTVJ

[VOCALottawa @VOCALottawa]

Canadian physicians treating #COVID19 patients need freedom to access all potential treatments @CPHO_Canada @GovCanHealth @AnnieClaireBO @marybethpf @CBCNews @CTV_AvisFavaro @picardonhealth @CTVNews @jchianello

https://t.co/L49NCfiTVJ

[VOCALottawa @VOCALottawa]

@AnnieClaireBO please ask Dr. Tam why promising treatments are being with held to #covid19 patients. Physicians need more freedom to treat
https://t.co/L49NCfiTVJ

[Annie Bergeron-Oliver @AnnieClaireBO]

Question to Tam now about differences in reporting and testing criteria. Tam says public health lab networks and special advisory committee talks to provinces every day. lab testing protocols can change depending on epidemiology in a particular jurisdiction, she says.

[Mary Beth Pfeiffer @marybethpf]

Major MD group sees “dramatic results” with #hydroxychloroquine & azithromycin for COVID — demands freedom to use. Ohio, Texas regulators are “unjustifiably restricting prescriptions for these life-saving medications.” Supplies can be ramped up quickly.
https://t.co/BvHb88ZJaN

[Mary Beth Pfeiffer @marybethpf]

I interviewed a woman with COVID from her NJ hospital bed. She's one patient in a real-time experiment to beat this epidemic. "I feel fortunate," she said. @jdbalart
https://t.co/fQp0MaRL7k

[VOCALottawa @VOCALottawa]

Canadian press need to step up, put this potential successful treatment on the radar in Canada! @CTV_AvisFavaro @picardonhealth @CBCNews @CTVNews

[Mary Beth Pfeiffer @marybethpf]

I interviewed a woman with COVID from her NJ hospital bed. She's one patient in a real-time experiment to beat this epidemic. "I feel fortunate," she said. @jdbalart
https://t.co/fQp0MaRL7k

[Mary Beth Pfeiffer @marybethpf]

Every year, the ranks grow of disabled people whose Lyme disease was diagnosed late because their test was wrong. No surprise then that @CDCgov failed the COVID-19 challenge. @Lymenews @LymeBook @LymeAlliance @BayAreaLyme @Middleagemom @lyme_protest
https://t.co/sjWVpIDW9s

[LymeDisease.org @Lymenews]

A new @StanfordMed study in the laboratory (petri dishes) and mice provides evidence that the drug azlocillin completely kills off the #LymeDisease-causing bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi at the onset of the illness. https://t.co/5J8K9L8VCZ

[Lyme Disease Advocate @AdvocatLyme]

'New Stanford Medicine study in lab dishes & mice provides evidence that the drug azlocillin completely kills off the disease-causing bacteria Borrelia B at the onset...could also be effective for treating patients infected with drug-tolerant bacteria that may cause lingering Sx'

[Bay Area Lyme Foundation @BayAreaLyme]

Stanford: Bay Area Lyme Foundation funds potential treatment for Lyme disease kills bacteria that may cause lingering symptoms, study finds https://t.co/yJWi3XCWiE @StanfordMed @StanfordCME @JayRajadas @cohengive @LymeBiobank @CDCgov @NIH @HHSGov @CAPublicHealth @cziscience

[Kristina Petterson Bauer @kristinambauer7]

Congratulations ⁦@JayRajadas⁩, Pothenine, ⁦⁦@BayAreaLyme⁩ & Laurel STEM fund for producing another great study for patients! Potential treatment for Lyme disease kills bacteria that may cause lingering symptoms. Stanford Medicine https://t.co/sVsPS4GBPR

[Dr. Steven Phillips & Dana Parish @LymeBook]

Crazy timing for a book on a pandemic that exposes the @CDCgov’s incompetence....way before Covid19 has cemented it into the world’s consciousness. @CBSNews @NBCNews @ABC @DrOz @fox5ny @FoxNewsSunday @AC360 @Acosta

To pre-order: https://t.co/c0OSODMvnE

[CanLyme @CanLyme]

Potential treatment for Lyme disease kills bacteria that may cause lingering symptoms, study finds https://t.co/y1ZUem2eSX

[CanLyme @CanLyme]

The evidence is abundant, treat now, don't keep waiting on research that never gets done but should be done in collaboration with patients and their experts.
No more talk, we want action. Oversight badly needed on Lyme file in Canada. Lives destroyed,

[CanLyme @CanLyme]

Thank you Len Webber, MP
Health Minister, stop allowing conflicted anti-antibiotic infectious disease physicians to prevent longer-term antibiotic treatment for those who need it because of a bacterial infection requiring antibiotics. https://t.co/jvg6oWNVfD

[CanLyme @CanLyme]

The Ministry of Health says they engage with the medical community which is true. What they fail to say is they repeatedly refuse to engage patient's and their experts at the policy making table. Medical leadership is corrupt. Oversight immediately!! https://t.co/fUpsdsIDfZ

[Poughkeepsie Journal @PokJournal]

Joseph Elone's family believes his 2013 death could have been prevented if doctors had treated him for Lyme disease. https://t.co/icpbuIaGPA