Ryan Cooper

Infectious Diseases Physician. TB and Public Health.

[AMMI Canada @AMMICanada]

🦠🌍 This #AntimicrobialAwarenessWeek, let's remember that while antimicrobials are crucial, many drugs deemed Essential Medicines by the @WHO are NOT accessible in 🇨🇦 outside the Special Access Program.
RT if you think these drugs should be more easily accessible to Canadians
#AMR #AccessMatters #Infections #WAAW2024

[Debora Pedrazzoli @debpedrazzoli]

“It’s also clear that we cannot truly #EndTB unless we address its drivers: poverty, malnutrition, diabetes, HIV, tobacco and alcohol use, poor living and working conditions, stigma and discrimination, and more” - @DrTedros #WorldTBDay2023 @WHO

[Stop TB Canada @StopTBCanada]

Eliminating #tuberculosis in Canada is possible - but we need a plan. We are calling on the government to implement a National TB Elimination Strategy, backed by the political will & funding necessary to follow through on 🇨🇦's commitment to #EndTB.

[Brett Edwards @bdedwards2015]

An honour to collaborate on this review on the growing anti-mycobacterial pipeline https://t.co/x48AvxYvhU with a true expert in mycobacterial pharmacology, Dr. S. Field. Published in @DrugsJournal #tuberculosis #TB @UCalgaryMed @UCalgary

[TB in Focus @TBinFocus]

🥳😊New paper led by former @UAlbertaSPH student, Amber Heyd, in @PLOSGPH: A qualitative descriptive study focused on use of 3HP to treat TB infection among persons experiencing houselesness in Central and Northern Alberta, Canada.
https://t.co/ZrQU3ClbQy

[Ryan Cooper @rdcooper57]

@bdedwards2015 Nice work, man!

[Ryan Cooper @rdcooper57]

@CityofEdmonton @markiemoose @thegarneau @bikeedmonton @michaeljanz Absurd solution. I assume city is trolling? If not, if this is a genuine solution, please note these low, dark, barriers are hard to see in evening by cyclist. I would suggest warning signs, but perhaps you will instead add barb wire?

[Ryan Cooper @rdcooper57]

@awong37 Great piece, Dr. Wong!

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

Clinical Trials https://t.co/MEt9sofc9b

[Power & Politics @PnPCBC]

"They will be easy prey for the Taliban": As the militant group sweeps across Afghanistan, @HonAndrewLeslie says the Canadian government's resettlement efforts for Afghan contractors who worked with Canada's mission to Afghanistan needs to be "better, faster, smarter."

[Stop TB Canada @StopTBCanada]

Great job to our fab steering committee members Courtney & Tina for raising awareness about #TB & its intersectionality with injustice! In 🇨🇦 the prevalence of TB in Canada's Inuit communities is over 290x higher than in the non-Indigenous, Canadian-born population. @MarcMillerVM

[André Picard @picardonhealth]

Residential school deaths from #tuberculosis weren’t unavoidable – they were caused by deliberate neglect like overcrowding and malnutrition, by @LenaFaust1, Courtney Heffernan https://t.co/EkahwPJsPD via @GlobeDebate @paimadhu #TB #sdoh

[Brad Spellberg @BradSpellberg]

@Ddrekonja Huge pet peeve! Particularly when it or the TST are ordered to work up a symptomatic patient.

I think there should be a Constitutional amendment indicating that the ordering of a TST or quantiferon test to work up for active TB is a treasonous offense. RT if you agree.

[ASM @ASMicrobiology]

Ever wonder why flowcharts & visual summaries are so effective? @MicrobeNat highlights how visual tools help novice learners become #clinicalmicrobiology experts: https://t.co/d3Pp5OHzOd
#ASMClinMicro #MicroMedEd #IDtwitter @cullen_lilley @VarunPhadke2 @rabihmgeha

[Elaine Hyshka @ehyshka]

The Alberta government is permanently closing #yeg's @boylestreet supervised consumption service (SCS) at a time when more people than ever are dying of overdose. This closure will result in a 35% drop in #yeg's current SCS capacity (booths). #ableg https://t.co/G9G3ed1Pzb

[Isaac Bogoch @BogochIsaac]

Nah. Let's not lose perspective here. The vast (vast) majority of #COVID19 transmission is indoors. We know how to make safer indoor spaces but choose not to or fail to (ahem: essential workers).

Outdoors is so much safer. Move as much business & school outdoors as possible.

[Ryan Cooper @rdcooper57]

@ScrofKula @NeejaB @DGlaucomflecken Who knew that so many of our patients have Pet Cockatoos. Dr Kula, that’s who!

[UofA Infectious Diseases @UofA_ID]

Congratulations to @wsligl for this richly deserved recognition! https://t.co/fmOWZ7pTOx

[Elaine Hyshka @ehyshka]

Opinion: What Erin O’Toole is really saying when he says criminals shouldn’t get early access to vaccines - The Globe and Mail https://t.co/oSpT8zT6dw