With Canada now at 75% partially vaccinated (>age 12), & Delta requiring an incredibly high fraction of pop needing to be vaccinated, our strategy to reach the remainder will need to change.
It’s time to pivot.
It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently, a 🧵(1/9)
@ColinDMello Can someone please explain why nhl hockey is “essential”??? Teams and their staff can travel, workout and play in indoor environments yet as of Jan 14 I can be fined or worse - be jailed up to a year for meeting 5 ppl or more in an outdoor park. How does any of this make sense?!
I’m starting Season 64 of my life today! I want to say it loudly b/c as women we don’t talk about getting older in a positive way. We hide our age as if it’s something to be ashamed of! Such nonsense. I’m here to say it’s wonderful to be this age. Love your age - whatever it is!
These things have been showing up in mailboxes around Belleville today. Options for disposal include wiping one’s ass, or cleaning up dog shit with them.
Great to see the @UHN ECLS team highlighted in a very human story on the front page of the Star this morning. @efan75@MarceloCypel@SKeshavjee How a last-resort intervention brought this Toronto man back from the brink https://t.co/AZB3cm4ulU via @torontostar
Ontario will begin proactive #COVID19 surveillance testing in all nursing homes, including:
-Immediately testing all residents and staff in homes in outbreak
-Testing in homes with no symptomatic residents or staff
This is big news.
@jyangstar @katecallen@DFisman@kellygrant1
The Michael Garron Hospital was weeks ahead of the government with this idea of sending hospital based "SWAT teams" into long-term care homes. @MGHToronto launched this #COVID19 initiative in March.
https://t.co/gtKsEPZNov
Changing your mind in changing circumstances is not flip-flopping and not a lack of leadership. It's how you do good science, and how we should shape public policy going forward - being nimble, not rigid. And recognizing #COVID19 is as humbling as it is challenging.
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“We are not the frontline in this battle. We as healthcare workers stand in the back. We’re the LAST line of defense. The frontline of this epidemic is YOU, the people in the community, tasked with the challenge of keeping each other safe.”