Arthur Grabowski

UroOncologist, Durham Regional Cancer Centre. Views are my own.

[Adam B. Weiner, MD @Adam_Weiner535]

🚨 New data on #ProstateCancer RT toxicity 🚨

✍️@EurUrolOncol

Curious with how these data align w/ current counseling?

@AnthonyNguyenMD @AmarUKishan @DrSpratticus @Soum_Roy_RadOnc

🇮🇹 IRRADIaTE registry (>1,200 pts):

👉43% of men presenting w/ late GU complications had grade 3–5 toxicity

👉Hospitalization-free survival: 42% at 5 yrs

👉RT complication-related Surgery-free survival: 60% at 5 yrs

👉Primary RT > adjuvant/salvage RT for severe events

🔗https://t.co/DPQ1HiYXZL

@PCFnews @urotoday @UrologyTimes

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Martin, with precisely zero provocation, Trump said a year ago that he intended to “annex Canada” and make it the 51st state by applying “economic pressure;”

- He imposed lifted, increased, decreased, re-imposed and repeatedly threatened tariffs on everything imported from Canada, in gross violation of the CUSMA agreement that he signed, calling it “the greatest trade agreement in history;”

- He initially did so on the entirely specious grounds that Canada was a major source of fentanyl imports and illegal migration to the US, both claims completely contradicted by data, and US law enforcement agencies. The claims were so ridiculous - even for Trump - that he has not repeated them for the past ten months;

- He has repeatedly said the US needs “nothing” from Canada, specifically mentioning our energy

- He continues to maintain crippling sectoral tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum and certain auto components in violation of CUSMA, tariffs that are costing the Canadian economy billions of dollars and thousands of jobs;

- Senior Administration officials (Greer, Lutnick et al) have been intimating for months that CUSMA will not be renewed;

- Trump has repeatedly referred to the Canada-US border as “imaginary” and “fake.”

- His insults and provocations are too many to list, but just in the last week he has said that Canada has been “completely taken over by China” because of a discrete tariff agreement requested by western provinces and initially *endorsed by Trump*; and insulted the honour and memory of our troops, claiming that they “stayed a little back from the front lines” in Afghanistan.

Given all of that and more, you blame the Prime Minister of Canada for CUSMA being in jeopardy? WTH?

After a year of this, how can we still have some Canadians blaming Canada for Trump taking a wrecking ball to the relationship?

Under these circumstances, Prime Minister Carney has exercised remarkable restraint.

What would satisfy you? Grovelling subservience? Giving the US total control over our trade relations with the rest of the world?

We Canadians can and should debate the most prudent way to deal with the completely unpredictable and destabilizing threat from Trump. (I, for one, don’t support the recent deal with China.) But surely no reasonable person can conclude that Canada provoked or is any meaningful way to blame for this crisis.

[Arthur Grabowski @artgrab]

@DogSmokingPipes @AvivaKlompas Looks like Toronto to me.

[Arthur Grabowski @artgrab]

@Feher_Junior P
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[Arthur Grabowski @artgrab]

@drandrewb Current program pays for health care for uninsured poor people as well as millionaire visitors. Basically anyone walking into the ER. The Ontario taxpayers are on the hook. Even those who can afford to pay don’t have to. It’s wrong and needs to be addressed.

[NEJM @NEJM]

Persons who had received two doses of the #COVID19 vaccine had serum that poorly neutralized omicron. Those who had recovered from infection and then vaccinated, or who had been vaccinated and had breakthrough, had high levels of neutralizing activity. https://t.co/Dpans55pPa

[Arthur Grabowski @artgrab]

@sj_ca1867 @JasonRodgers_13 @regina_bateson @fordnation Risk of ICU admission from COVID was 1:50,000 for a healthy 5-11yo. There were NO COVID deaths in this age group.

[Arthur Grabowski @artgrab]

@CertainlySondra @regina_bateson @ccleighton @fordnation

[Arthur Grabowski @artgrab]

@CertainlySondra @regina_bateson @ccleighton @fordnation Look at the studies of COVID in kids. The only hospitalizations are in kids with significant comorbidites. Healthy kids are not at risk, even if not vaccinated. If you have a slick child, I encourage you to stay home or get them vaccinated.

[Arthur Grabowski @artgrab]

@regina_bateson @fordnation Science does not support the closing of schools. Let’s leave politics out of the classroom. COVID is not a threat to our kids. Teachers should by now be vaccinated, if not, they only have themselves to blame.

[NEJM @NEJM]

The effectiveness of the BNT162B2 vaccine in adolescents was assessed. Among 445 case patients and 777 controls, of the 180 patients admitted to an ICU, only 2 had been fully vaccinated; all 7 deaths occurred in unvaccinated patients. #COVID19Vaccines https://t.co/8zM33Ff3Xz

[childrenshealthcoalition @CHCOntario]

We support the decision to return Ontario children to in-person learning. The best place for kids remains the classroom, and we all have a role to play to manage risk while maintaining focus on their mental, physical and developmental wellbeing.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Remarkably low rate of myocarditis among children mRNA (Pfizer) vaccinated age 5-11
Total of 12 cases among 8.7 million doses given
https://t.co/sL4tmsy6wd
Rate of 4/million in boys is <1/10th the rate in teens

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

A good omen for Omicron from its 1st epicenter in Gauteng, South Africa https://t.co/zd1sRl12W9 The reduced clinical severity compared with the 1st 3 waves, and vs Beta and Delta variants

[Arthur Grabowski @artgrab]

@imgrund Wow. You seem COVID obsessed, but reading through your posts it is pretty clear you don’t understand the disease. Focusing on number of cases which is currently irrelevant. Please get educated.

[Arthur Grabowski @artgrab]

@JeanmarcBenoit https://t.co/m0E1N1cNOp

[Arthur Grabowski @artgrab]

@JohnTory Consider Re-dedicating to another Dundas instead. I suggest one of the Dundas fighter pilots who fought in WWII to commemorate the sacrifices of our Veterans.

[Arthur Grabowski @artgrab]

@Preyratology Duh! Don’t know any adults that actually play on a kids playgrounds and trust me, I’ve been to quite a few.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

And this one @PNASNews today on countering indoor airborne transmission
https://t.co/xDVJpbM8ie
ventilation
masks
nose-breathing
whispering and quiet speech
"inadequacy of the Six-Foot Rule"

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Airborne it is. 🦠
The 10 streams of overwhelming evidence
https://t.co/y3ZT40Nsu8
@TheLancet by @trishgreenhalgh @kprather88 @Rschooley @zeynep @jljcolorado @dfisman
a 5-★ succinct summary