drjfraser

Phys prof focused on the data, always looking for more hills far from other people but close to home.

[drjfraser @drjfraser]

The pan-Canadian latte series resumes with Granville Island

[Skate the Lake @bigrideauskate]

Ok Skaters! The oval is OPEN.
However, be careful! The ice is still quite rough. It will take Clay a few more days on the Olympia to get it smooth.
Enjoy!
Dress warm! #skatethelake2022 #skatethelakechallenge

[drjfraser @drjfraser]

@Orad @LundeenOttawa "1 deg is the same thing as 1 radian" - no, because degree is a unit. Radian is not a unit. It is just hanging out there so you don't make the mistake of assuming the 45 in sin(45) is 45 degrees. sin(45 rad) makes it clear.

[drjfraser @drjfraser]

Minister Fullerton @DrFullertonMPP Currently in Ottawa. there is a hairstylist serving residents in 27 different LTC and RHs. Since the stylist is a "service provider", the "one worker, one workplace" rule does not apply. Please help before a superspreader event! @CBCQueensPark

[drjfraser @drjfraser]

@jkwan_md I would love if you were right and that testing has been increasing BUT on Apr 15 #ontario switched reporting "number people tested" to "number of swabs tested". That is why number of "tests" increased - they changed units. So 8743 might be ~5000 people (less than end of March)

[drjfraser @drjfraser]

#COVID19 #ontario testing positive rate has ~halved since Apr 15 - this is good right?...wait, Apr15 is the day #onpoli changed the way testing is counted: from number of people tested to number of swabs processed. We have NO idea how many people tested. This does not help!

[drjfraser @drjfraser]

Colorado sends #COVID19 testing teams into LTC facilities that have experienced NO cases: "300 tests ... for each facility to test staff and residents." Goal: early intervention. @celliottability @fordnation @DrFullertonMPP this seems like a great idea! https://t.co/j8MjAWhxMr

[drjfraser @drjfraser]

A good news story for you: May launch date announced. After almost a decade, the US will launch astronauts to #ISS in a US ship (@SpaceX )

[Col. Doug Hurley @Astro_Doug]

It is coming up quickly! Still lots to do though. The last week @NASA_Johnson included EVA and robotics training as well as medical testing and training. We also had a day of @SpaceX lessons here in Houston. Headed back to California next week. More #CrewDragon training!

[drjfraser @drjfraser]

So 9000 "tests" is probably more like 4500 people tested. But press says "On Thursday, the province reported completing 9,001 tests during the previous day, surpassing a target the health minister set last week after the premier said his patience had worn thin." @globalnews

[drjfraser @drjfraser]

So happy to see #Ontario #COVID19 tests up to 9000. But change in fine print:"This number represents total tests and not persons tested." We do not know number samples taken per person (~2), so now we no longer know the number of people tested. Oh no! @CBCQueensPark @globalnewsto

[drjfraser @drjfraser]

@DrFullertonMPP Thank you for this! Residents of long-term care and retirement homes need protection and their staff need repeated #covid19 testing. But in #ygk only 35 tests were done for the *entire* city April 11-12. Source: KFLA PH How about sending out testers into the care homes?

[drjfraser @drjfraser]

@DrFullertonMPP thanks for your important work in the crisis! But why has #Ontario not done like BC, AB, and now guidelines from @CPHO_Canada? LTC/retirement homes are a #COVID19 tinder box. Please mandate operators to put in a firewall, e.g., switch parttime staff to fulltime.

[drjfraser @drjfraser]

Wow, really effective #COVID19 science communication! I would have done case 2 differently: launch many balls (we have many cases now) so some traps are triggered but show "spread" dies out.

[Ohio Dept of Health @OHdeptofhealth]

Social distancing works. We are all #InThisTogetherOhio. https://t.co/jU4ZAkm3Py

[drjfraser @drjfraser]

An app that does contact tracing securely to cut off the #COVID19 spread? Brilliant for essential workers! Maybe the way back for economy to restart. Right now, I'm not essential. I stay home. My contact list (beyond household) is... um no one.

[drjfraser @drjfraser]

@licensetoblonde Agreed! Testing and retesting the staff seems like a pretty efficient way of slowing down the number of outbreaks. Esp considering ontario claims capacity to do 13000 tests per day but hasn't done more than 5000 in days and days. We should be running things! Well maybe not....

[drjfraser @drjfraser]

Heard of a grassroots effort asking #Ontario MLTC to put firewall around longterm care/retirement facilities: repeated #covid_19 testing for residents and workers. Free accommodation/food for staff. Supposedly done in Wuhan with success. Sounds impossible to do here but is it?

[drjfraser @drjfraser]

So I don't get this: ltc/retirement homes (including forprofit) rely on part-time staff so these folks need to work at multiple facilities. But #Ontario govt does not want more restrictions (like those in BC AB) since there is a worker shortage. Maybe hire these workers fulltime?

[drjfraser @drjfraser]

Shout out to Rudi and staff at @taranaturalfood for helping keep #ygk fed. And well-fed!

[drjfraser @drjfraser]

So glad to hear #Ontario #COVIDー19 testing will start increasing, but @gabbyrodriguess @globalnews @CBCQueensPark can you ask assessment centres if they have all they need? I am hearing lack of swabs is a big concern. Would love to hear that problem has been resolved!

[drjfraser @drjfraser]

So useful to hear the voices from people hit by #covid19 - easy to forget that behind each confirmed case there is a person (and family and community..). Sending this out to my student-athletes who might be tempted to think it won't get them https://t.co/T8c1cbtDbP