Julia Dean, MPH, MBA, CHE

Health care planner & mama of 3. Born & raised in Tobermory, ON 🇨🇦 Current #hamont resident. Tweets my own.

[Julia Dean, MPH, MBA, CHE @JuliaDtheHP]

SOS @instagram I cannot be suspended from ig on #Halloween of all days, please fix

[Mike E @ElADHDWarrior92]

Did anyone else's Instagram just get suspended for no reason? And now Instagram won't even bother to let you appeal it just gives you an error?

#InstagramDown?

[Julia Dean, MPH, MBA, CHE @JuliaDtheHP]

@paulsht Thanks for letting me know! Where is she going?

[Zain Chagla @zchagla]

This will haunt us

[Vinay Prasad MD MPH @VPrasadMDMPH]

It used to be obvious
In medicine, you have to prove your intervention helps
You don't just do it until someone shows harm
Some facts about masking kids for 3+ yrs
@R_Hughes1 @apsmunro

https://t.co/cMfzfiLUBP

[Alasdair Munro @apsmunro]

A study about facemasks so bad it would have failed an undergraduate medical student assignment, got blindly shared by scientists with hundreds of thousands, or millions of followers

How did this happen?!

Join me for this remarkable story 🔥

https://t.co/5f3qge8ePS

[Alasdair Munro @apsmunro]

A recent article in BMJ EBM claimed we should accept mechanistic studies as a higher form of evidence for “complex systems”

This is wrong

Failing to generate better quality evidence on NPIs was undoubtedly one of the biggest mistakes of the pandemic

https://t.co/UCKgfGqrKd

[Alasdair Munro @apsmunro]

Looks like a pretty major breakthrough in the investigation of paediatric hepatitis with unknown cause

Adeno-associated virus 2 (AAV2) detected in the plasma of all 9 cases (and liver of the 4 available to test), and in zero matched controls

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https://t.co/RZNeawi9cr

[Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD @TracyBethHoeg]

And all for no benefit👇
"School closures have caused perhaps 'the worst educational crisis for a century & certainly since the world wars'...too few countries have recognised the scale of the disaster & that the true cost will not be visible for years"🧵
https://t.co/ADjir5A7PQ

[Alasdair Munro @apsmunro]

Wondering why your little kids seem to have been sick for months?

Not sure what people mean by “immunity debt”?

Never heard of immunity “overshoot”?

Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered!

Find out all about it right here 👇

https://t.co/ZURqajzXsk

[Julia Dean, MPH, MBA, CHE @JuliaDtheHP]

@lelia_glass @VPrasadMDMPH Insider tip: if you puke inside the mask during labour, you get to take it off 😬

[Stefan Baral @sdbaral]

Friday morning reminder

If you are engaging in regular human activities including socializing, working in person, travelling, in person conferences, you'll be exposed to respiratory viruses.

These viruses have survived for millions of years in hosts because they are infectious.

[Julia Dean, MPH, MBA, CHE @JuliaDtheHP]

Something about this just feels “icky”. Should SDD really be deciding such things? Haven’t we learned our lesson on overly politicizing vaccination?

[Zain Chagla @zchagla]

Of note the guidance from NACI our experts on vaccination encouraging parental choice without stigmatization or consequence. Are we willing to accept some of our most marginalized kids out of school?

[Dr. Jeanne Noble @JeanneNoble18]

"Extended school closures appear to have done much more harm than good..where schools reopened (in 2020), the spread of Covid was not noticeably worse" and remote learning erased decades of progress in closing racial achievement gaps in education. https://t.co/wtBFMGC5jx

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

"REMOTE LEARNING WAS A FAILURE."

“This will probably be the largest increase in educational inequity in a generation."

"...school closures were a regressive policy, widening inequality by doing the most harm to groups that were already vulnerable."

https://t.co/avOJCax81c

[Shamez Ladhani @ShamezLadhani]

One of the sad consequences of the #COVID19 pandemic is that many parents have lost confidence in looking after kids with common childhood illnesses at home because of all scaremongering on the media & social media, which is overwhelming GP & A&E services everywhere👇

[Vinay Prasad MD MPH @VPrasadMDMPH]

Honored to assist A. Iness & team in review of Hospital Visitor policies 👇

"Blanket hospital visitor policies were associated with failure to address the unique needs of patients, their visitors, and healthcare providers in various clinical environments"
https://t.co/IIkdpTVVz3

[Julia Dean, MPH, MBA, CHE @JuliaDtheHP]

Retweeting this for other parents like me who have multiple kids (8 mths, 2 & 5 yrs) and feel like the last few months have been a revolving door of illness 🥴

[Alasdair Munro @apsmunro]

There are A LOT of bugs going around! 🦠 🤒

It can be hard for parents to know when their children need to see a health professional or when they can wait at home

Here’s a thread of my top tips!

(for more info check healthier together 👇)

https://t.co/EigbrnSpW4

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[Julia Dean, MPH, MBA, CHE @JuliaDtheHP]

You’d never know any of this from the headline nor the excerpts that key Ontario Covid “experts” keep tweeting out 🤔 weird #onpoli #onted

[Alasdair Munro @apsmunro]

Despite these reassuring data that children were less likely to be an index case, less likely to infect others in the household, and likely less susceptible, the study concludes: "children are an important driver of the COVID-19 pandemic"

People see what they want to see 🤷��♂️

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[Julia Dean, MPH, MBA, CHE @JuliaDtheHP]

@bergerbell

[Julia Dean, MPH, MBA, CHE @JuliaDtheHP]

@BallouxFrancois @EmergencyBlog #onpoli