Barry Pakes

Public Health Specialist, clinician, Global Health educator, practitioner,researcher and ethicist - ACCOUNT WILL NOT BE USED RELATING TO YORK REGION PH

[Barry Pakes @PakesGlobal]

@marki2059 @HelenBranswell Yes, and if 95% of US pop of 330m is vaccinated or had measles (a very high estimate) and ~ 2% have vaccine failure, then well over 23 million susceptible (likely closer to 30m) and 0.1% of those = 23,000 deaths that are 100% preventable (plus 100,000 hospitalizations…).

[Barry Pakes @PakesGlobal]

@FareedZakaria Fareed need to fix this graphic. You said less than one percent, but the graphic was >1%. Oops.

[UToronto - Public Health & Preventive Medicine @PHPMUToronto]

2 years ago but the message remains the same. Congratulations to the PHPM residency classes of 2022! You have given your heart and soul to this specialty and it gives hope and joy to know you’ll be the leaders of tomorrow ❤️

[UofT Family Medicine @UofTFamilyMed]

A big congrats to DFMC's 13 incredible faculty members recognized for senior promotion in 2022 to their new positions of Full Professor or Associate Professor @UofT!

Read more about each faculty and their work in #familymedicine in our new announcement:
https://t.co/Z10VDd2rZR

[Barry Pakes @PakesGlobal]

@chris_m_h @UofTPGME Thank you so much Chris for your leadership of this module and everything you do for Global Health. So very appreciated and we’ll deserved!

[Barry Pakes @PakesGlobal]

@KashPrime @DFisman Public Health and Preventive Medicine is a Royal College specialty. He and other MOH’s are not doing an ‘admin job’, they are practicing PHPM. Prob wasnt your intention to insult, but thought I’d point that out.

[Barry Pakes @PakesGlobal]

@RitikaGoelTO @UofTPGME Global Health Education Initiative will hold a special session tonight. Why a session on #UkraineRussiaWar and not others? (We have done others..) but I hope to address this - and very much speak to the bias and racism that @RitikaGoelTO notes here.

[Barry Pakes @PakesGlobal]

@KLHM2010 Please refrain from linking to this personal account that is not connected to York Region. Please address your concerns to the appropriate authority responsible for that area - vaccine eligibility and school guidance are a provincial domain, not local public health.

[Barry Pakes @PakesGlobal]

No line up, lots of walk in capacity at York Region/UJA clinic. First, second third doses. 9600 Bathurst St - Schwartz/Reisman Centre. Come one come all.

[Barry Pakes @PakesGlobal]

@abuckley101 No, they are not eligible quite yet. They would need adult pfizer.

[Barry Pakes @PakesGlobal]

Wide open Booster Clinic - This Sunday Jan 16 in Vaughan (9600 Bathurst St, Maple). Open to ANYONE in need of a Booster or Pediatric Pfizer (children ages 5-11)! 5000 doses. Super efficient clinic. Lots of space! Please share. Register here: https://t.co/bzERpWi9Vw

[Barry Pakes @PakesGlobal]

@DrBarbKing I speak out regularly in many media outlets, Twitter is not an appropriate forum for any MOH this time.

[Barry Pakes @PakesGlobal]

@DrBarbKing @nandon2425 This is not an account associated with York Region

[Barry Pakes @PakesGlobal]

@LWaler @LoriAMacNeil @fordnation This is NOT the public health unit sitting on a positive case in school - this has to do with when the child was tested and when it was reported.

[900 CHML @AM900CHML]

The @ChmlBillKelly Podcast: Ontario pauses reopening plans, #DougFord’s latest promises & comments & Search for #UnmarkedGraves at former Brantford #ResidentialSchool!

#OnPoli #EveryChildMatters @PakesGlobal @Moe_ali91 @kahnasatake @survivorssec
LISTEN: https://t.co/mQcb9gwYw1

[Barry Pakes @PakesGlobal]

Listening to @metromorning about #Diwali2021 driving carpool. Quizzed kids on the other major religious holiday worth mention on air #Sigd for Ethiopian Jews. https://t.co/cNSPu1oyHe Important lessons for Canada on incorporating a minority holiday into national consciousness.

[U of T Public Health @UofT_dlsph]

Lessons should be taken from Canada’s staggering death count in long-term care and among essential workers says Prof. @PakesGlobal but the problems highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic were already known to public health. https://t.co/6j7zdghaPs @MelissaCoutoZ has the report.

[Barry Pakes @PakesGlobal]

@DFisman I’ve been doing a rudimentary weekly plot (dev from weekly avg) for a while…to decide if I should be worried. For a Monday, today’s numbers are a bit unusual.

[Barry Pakes @PakesGlobal]

@DrKateTO @DFisman @fordnation @JustinTrudeau Unfortunately, rapid tests in Ontario are already widespread in some school communities are are causing more infections/problems than they are solving - by a long shot. I certainly understand parents frustration and thinking rapid tests will be helpful, but not so.