Candi Edwards

Anishinaabe Equay of the Animbiigoo Zaagi'igan Anishinaabek, Indigenous rights activist, health equity advocate, hockey fan, cancer caregiver, wife, and mother

[Candi Edwards @CandiKEdwards]

@TheSavBananas @ThePrtyAnimals @TXTailgaters @TheIndyClowns This is a dream come true! 💛

[Candi Edwards @CandiKEdwards]

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[FireFighterDev @fire_starter457]

If feeding a hungry child accidentally benefits an "undeserving" child, I am prepared to live with this devastating outcome.

[‏ً @itsnwts]

“Not ALL men.”

Prove it then. You're one of the good ones? Open up your group chat with “the boys” and show us how you talk about women.

[cady ★ @valicelebrini]

you think you know pain but you havent lost joseph woll, matthew knies, steven lorentz, bobby mcmann, and scott laughton all in 6 months

[Candi Edwards @CandiKEdwards]

@RealOxfordComma @MerriamWebster Team Oxford Comma

[Candi Edwards @CandiKEdwards]

@ThatEricAlper It’s okay, I WANTED to cry today anyway!

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

In the 1960s, most children with leukaemia died

Now over 90% survive

Science did that

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Hepatitis C used to mean cirrhosis, cancer, liver transplant.

Now it's 8–12 weeks of tablets and a cure rate over 95%.

Science did that.

[Cora Harrington @CoraCHarrington]

Too many people on this app are too comfortable using degrading and dehumanizing language.

[Tyler Black, MD @tylerblack32]

Let me tell you about how seriously we take vaccine safety in the world. The whole of public health is COMMITTED to delivering vaccines safely.

Examples:
1) "please sit here for 15 minutes" after the vaccine
(30 minutes if you have a history of allergies). The chance of vaccine anaphylaxis is about 3 per million doses. The chance of a FATAL anaphylactic reaction is about 2% of those. So we have you sit there, epipen nearby, for a 1 in ~30 million chance. There is no verified anaphylactic death to a COVID vaccine in the US or Canada's ENTIRE HISTORY (hundreds of millions of doses given).

2) COVID surveillance systems discovered the J&J clot issue. Six reported cases in 6.8 million doses caused the initial pause (1 per million) by April 13, 6 weeks after it was launched. At that frequency, there was NO WAY to detect it with a clinical trial. By the time the investigation stopped. By March 2022, there were 60 confirmed cases with 9 deaths. (In fact, the RATE of J&J TTS doesn't exceed baseline rates of TTS, it was the incredible epidemiologists recognizing the cluster of central venous sinus thrombosis, positive anti-pf4 without heparin exposure, and mostly women 30-40s). We now believe it was about 3.55 cases per million doses. And now you can't get J&J anymore, because the SURVEILLANCE WORKED and it was determined to be too unsafe for public use. Withdrawn at the company's request. In total: ~60 serious events (2 per million doses) lead to its withdrawal. (for mRNA vaccines, TTS is felt to be 0.0057 per million doses, or one in 175 million doses given.

3) AstraZeneca/Vaxzevria (same mechanism) UK moved to 30+ in April 2021, then 40+ in May, on roughly 1 in 100,000 in young adults; several countries dropped it entirely.

4) RSV vaccines and Guillain-Barre Syndrome - probably the best example. Early VAERS showed ~4.4/~1.8 (2 different vaccines) per million doses. Studies showed 9-22 excess cases per million doses, ACIP narrowed the recommendation from 60+ to 75+, and the FDA requires a GBS warning (even though the at the time the best study showed that the difference may not be statistically significant, and we now know there was a statistical signficance).

6) mRNA vaccines and myocarditis - Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway suspended it <30y and FDA extended dose intervals. Determined the age gradient it affected almost immediately, and modified practice because of it. It is now felt to be a real signal, concentrated in young males after dose 2 during the primary series, and now (most recent analysis) 1/37,000 in 12-24 and still a very reassuring prognosis when it occurs (according to one Norwegian nationwide follow-up study)

So hey, when we say vaccines are "Safe" what we mean is:

1) OUR CURRENT BEST EVIDENCE IS THAT THEY ARE SAFER THAN ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU DO
2) We are watching VERY VERY VERY closely and we will YOINK TF OUT OF ANY VACCINE if we are concerned of even a MINIMAL CONCERN

The public should be very reassured that these systems are in place all over the world (virtually every modern country), they are being very carefully monitored and they've all generally agreed on the same result (though sometimes approach it differently).

[Candi Edwards @CandiKEdwards]

@parker_brydon In Northwestern Ontario, Lake of the Woods (Kenora) has great beer! Forgotten Lake is my favourite! And Sleeping Giant (Thunder Bay) has some tasty ones too!

[J Hunter🍁 @MrJoKeR604]

The U.S. regime trying to paint Canada as some kind of evil supervillain is genuinely one of the funniest things I’ve witnessed in my lifetime.

The rest of the world is just sitting there like:

“You mean…Canada? The country whose national stereotype is apologizing too much?”

[Candi Edwards @CandiKEdwards]

@kenzianidiot My husband battled a stage 4 head and neck cancer - it was brutal, but he is 6 years out and doing well! Best of everything to you and your family!

[Alex Boge @alexboge]

COVID infection vs vaccination isn't even a close call.

Across millions of people, the evidence is overwhelming:

• Death: roughly 10x lower for the vaccinated
• Hospitalization: roughly 5x lower
• Blood clots: COVID raises the risk sharply. Large studies haven't found the same for mRNA vaccines.
• Myocarditis: a real vaccine risk, concentrated in young men, and usually mild. Infection carries the greater overall cardiac burden.

Vaccines never meant zero risk. They meant far less risk.

And unverified reports submitted to VAERS record claims of what happened after a dose, not what was caused by one. A huge share of viral "vaccine harm" claims lives in that gap.

Compare actual outcomes instead of screenshots, and it isn't subtle.

Vaccination moves the odds overwhelmingly in your favor. It’s not even close.

[M🐝 @CakeMcJabe]

ME LAST WEEK: it's gonna be hard for me to ever embrace the guys we got for Gausman, just hurts too much

ME THIS WEEK: Brett Bateman is my son and I would run through sixteen brick walls for him

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Data for vaccine benefit in children
"Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years of whom 101 million were infants younger than 1 year."
https://t.co/hsv0N1Ays5
The most striking benefit was for vaccination vs measles (Figure)
The childhood vaccine distortions today by executive order will further add to the marked increase in US measles cases, currently the highest in 35 years.

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Brought to you by the same people who brought back measles.

[mariana Z @mariana057]

I don't always clear my calculator...

but when I do, I hit both 'C' and 'CE' a bunch of times because I don't know exactly what they do.