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[PK @pp9375]

@mayorgillingham the roads are being cleared today. Why is HSC not some of the roads cleared first…

[PK @pp9375]

@CBCNews @ctvwinnipeg @WabKinew the hospitals need help these wait times are dangerous.

[PK @pp9375]

@cityofwinnipeg Island Lakes and other areas are pure ice rinks where is the sand??

[PK @pp9375]

@lyndsycarleton @FourWinns298 Where did you get the test from?

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

Tour de France and Olympic athletes are wearing masks because they understand that catching COVID could undo years of hard work and sacrifices.

[Joaquín Beltrán Free Palestine @joaquinlife]

Violet Affleck holding it down at the LA County Board of Supervisors demanding mask availability, mask mandates in hospitals, and clean air in all government buildings including jails and detention centers. Go Violet! 😷🍉

[David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter]

Post this prominently in public places. Just do it!

[Jess @MeetJess]

While the world was about to lose millions of people, was about to disable millions of people, the WHO upgraded their entire ventilation system for their staff.
Imagine if they informed the world that this was AIRBORNE from the start.

They always knew it was

[PK @pp9375]

@EvHanson2 @BarryHunt008 Thank you!

[PK @pp9375]

@EvHanson2 @BarryHunt008 Where did you get Novavax?

[Saju Mathew MD MPH @drsajumathew]

Here's my issue with the new #CDC guideline regarding #Covid & isolation. It was premature & it will encourage people to show up sick & maskless, exposing our vulnerable populations.
This is what I recommend to my patients.

[PK @pp9375]

@raghu_venugopal And what if the child is only had one because they are age 2???

[Teresab @TeresabDB62]

Seriously shocking. A must watch for everyone. What the frigging hell are we doing to our children and to ourselves? It's every parents job to advocate for their child. Why are so many not doing their job.

[Dame Sa 🐝 3.5% @LongCovidHell]

“The only reason we cannot cure HIV is because the virus hides where the drugs can’t go. So it continues to fuel inflammation. That’s why somebody like me, who has been studying HIV for 20 years, found that COVID is extremely similar to HIV.”

#LongCovid https://t.co/yZhXF87BWL

[Derek Franks @Derek_a_Franks]

Yellow is C0VlD deaths.

Blue is flu deaths.

C0VlD 20-40x more deadly.

Stop calling it a flu. It’s no flu.

[Gregory Travis @greg_travis]

Already more people have died of COVID in January of 2024 than normally die of influenza in an entire year

[Julia Malott @AlottaMalotta]

Please share this widely! I couldn't be more terrified of our country's healthcare crisis and @ONThealth can do better!

Ontario healthcare is broken and we've long known it. It's been like this my entire lifetime, and I'm not exactly young.

This is my daughter's IV line, which she's been connected to since 2:00am this morning. She's been awake for well over 24 hours, as have I, as we await care at @StMarysGenHosp in Kitchener, Ontario.

We arrived shortly after 10:00pm yesterday evening after my daughter complained of excruciating abdominal pain. As usual, care took hours to arrive. She was given a bed where she squirmed and sobbed until finally, shortly after 2:00am, the doctor paid her a visit and ordered pain meds to make things bearable.

It was evident by 4:00am that we were almost certainly looking at appendicitis, as the pain was centralizing in the lower right quadrant. We all suspected this, but we couldn't confirm until 8:00am because... apparently we don't have ultrasound technicians during the evening. No one has medical emergencies in the middle of the night, I suppose?

For those who haven't had the pleasure of an inflamed appendix, appendicitis often leads to a ruptured appendix after a period of increasing pain, and that rupture can be fatal. Fortunately for us that hasn't happened yet, but time matters. There's nothing this hospital can do for us as 'we need to confirm it's appendicitis'. We wait until 8:00am

By 5:00am we are told that my daughter needs to give up her emergency room bed. Someone else needs it. She is still in pain, but will now make due sitting in the waiting room, putting pressure on her abdomen in the process. There's no negotiation—there are no beds available.

We wait until 8:00am. We wait until 9:00am. Some guy walks in with a Tim Horton's cup during our tenure and gets the first ultrasound slot. I'm sure his condition was just as severe.

By 10:00am the doctor confirmed what had been evident for hours—we've got a case of appendicitis on our hands and we need to move forward with emergency surgery.

...Except... they can't do that in this particular hospital and @grhospitalkw doesn't have any beds available either. No one knows when they will have a bed for my daughter who is both sleep deprived and in critical medical condition.

I inquire. An hour? A bed by noon? Will we even get one today?

No one has an answer. No one wants to have the conversation. I can tell I am a burden to the overworked staff.

We return to the waiting room and my daughter keeps sitting. She's been awake now since yesterday morning. Her pain flares up every few hours and—after being brought almost to tears the edge is subdued with another dose of pain suppressants.

She's refused a bed because there are no beds available, and I can't take her home to her bed because she needs surgery—though there's none of that available either.

She hasn't eaten in more than 18 hours and she's been told that she's not allowed one bite because she might have surgery any moment... Or perhaps never... so we sit and wait—watching her IV machine go into upstream occlusion every 5 minutes. The nurses don't have time to do anything about it.

This is a simple problem to fix. Fund our healthcare system! @SylviaJonesMPP, @fordnation, our citizens deserve better.

Fix it!

[Dr. Joss Reimer @jossreimer]

COVID vaccines are not just safe in pregnancy, they are beneficial.

Same goes for the influenza vaccine and pertussis.
#VaccinesWork

As always, the world owes an eternal debt to @VikiLovesFACS for her work fighting misinformation during this pandemic. 🙏

[Scott Squires @scottsquires.bsky.social @scott_squires]

We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself from a preventable disease because we didn't wanna.

[Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd]

New cancer diagnoses exceed 2 million/yr for 1st time. Many poss reasons for this. I spoke with mult experts👇incldg @VirusesImmunity about whether #SARSCoV2 can lead to cancer…

“We don’t have great evidence, but this virus has surprised us over & over.”
https://t.co/VFcvUVWDHG