Sarah Silverberg

PGY-5 Pediatric ID fellow @sickkidsnews * Previously @BCChildrensHosp @uoftmedicine * Global health, health policy, refugee care

[Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children @LeongCentre]

🌟Congrats Sarah Silverberg (@slsilverberg) on receiving the 2024 @LeongCentre Scholars Award! Learn more about her work: https://t.co/kyazPuecsP

[🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 @johngreen]

HUGE NEWS and what it means: This morning, @USAID, @StopTB, and @GlobalFund jointly announced that Danaher will lower the price of their standard TB test cartridge by 20% to $7.97. This isn't the 50% reduction we hoped for BUT...

@DanaherCorp is also committing to ZERO profit in their distribution of standard TB tests to impoverished communities. They will sell the cartridges at cost and bring in an "internationally accredited third-party" to assess prices and adjust them accordingly so that Danaher earns no profit from selling these cartridges. That is a huge deal. It means if Danaher's costs decline with increased volume, the price of the cartridges will further decline.

Just for some perspective, if (conservatively) 10 million cartridges are sold annually at the reduced price, this deal would save the poorest communities and those who serve them $200,000,000 over the next decade.

This is a massive win for people living with and fighting TB around the world, and it's a credit to years of activism by @MSF_access, @TAGTeam_Tweets, @PIH, and others.

There are many questions still outstanding, of course, and we hope that Danaher will take a similar course with their extensively drug resistant TB test cartridges. But I for one am very grateful to be able to celebrate today, even as the fight for universal access to treatment and diagnostics continues.

https://t.co/Oleh6ThGTB

[MSF Access @MSF_access]

We call on Cepheid to drop the price of the GeneXpert test for TB and all other diseases to $5, so many more lives can be saved.

Join us in tweeting @CepheidNews & @DanaherCorp to choose people over profits! 👉https://t.co/H03rPjGYWY

⏰#TimeFor5

[🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 @johngreen]

. @DanaherCorp makes 8 billion dollars in annual profits. Much of that profit comes from price-gouging the world's poorest countries for life-saving tuberculosis tests. Danaher has done this in the dark for 13 long years.
Today, we shine the light. #PeopleOverProfits

[Stop TB Canada @StopTBCanada]

An important message from John Green re: Johnson & Johnson's pursuit of the secondary patent of bedaquiline, which would result in an estimated 6 million people not being able to afford this treatment.

@JNJNews @JNJGlobalHealth we must put people over profits.

[Sarah Silverberg @slsilverberg]

@callie_mt You can easily make a nondairy chocolate mousse!

[Sarah Silverberg @slsilverberg]

@themenardcircus @drmwarner @ONgov Get your flu shot. Talk to other parents in the class and friends and family to do the same, as well as to mask in public spaces and use good hand hygiene.

[Sarah Silverberg @slsilverberg]

@vickyyyf Sorry friend. Purple 8th edition 😂

[Canadian Doctors for Medicare @CdnDrs4Medicare]

A huge win for our public healthcare system. Access to care should always be based on need, and not ability to pay. #BetterMedicare

[Sarah Silverberg @slsilverberg]

@safabric Yes in neonates, but that’s probably not who the question was about 😂

[Resident Doctors @ResidentDoctors]

Congratulations and thank you to RDoC’s Outstanding Volunteers of the Year - Dr. Tehmina Ahmad (@TehminaAhmadMD), Dr. Joshua Aquin of @PARIMResidents, Dr. Michael MacGillivary (@macgillv85) and Dr. Sarah Silverberg (@slsilverberg)!
Read more here: https://t.co/TU6jNM29Zl

[Sarah Silverberg @slsilverberg]

@BGamulka Mazal tov!

[Sarah Silverberg @slsilverberg]

@AlainnaJJ The libby app is the best! When I have random down time in the hospital I'll sneak in a bit of reading sometimes (like when you think youre waiting 10mins for a staff to review, but youre actually waiting half an hour)

[Sarah Silverberg @slsilverberg]

@BBUpdoots Meanwhile we just want Josh back on our call schedule 😂

[Sarah Silverberg @slsilverberg]

@DrJenGunter Anatomy. Abdominal wall structure. Felt like drinking from a firehose and extremely random to start with 😂

[Sarah Silverberg @slsilverberg]

@hankgreen as a left handed millennial I grew up using a mouse with my right hand - I can’t use a physical mouse with my left hand. Even track pads I use right dominant!

[Sarah Silverberg @slsilverberg]

@AlastairMcA30 @BMOVanMarathon just a chilly hour-long wait at the beginning 😅 we warmed up quickly though!

[Sarah Silverberg @slsilverberg]

@AlainnaJJ @Rachbcooper I got outed as a Canadian 10 years ago in Europe by a fellow Canuck because I was carrying a MEC backpack. Come to think of it, that backpack is still in prime condition and I still use it for hiking regularly. Their quality used to be amazing.