It’s pretty wild because they do this for most things now, including wildfire smoke! “We are not aware of the risk” becomes “There is no risk”

The pandemic response in Canada’s provinces taught me several hard lessons. One is that government officials are not necessarily on the side of our health, another is that public health units are compromised, they are more accurately described as political health units.

What you get, when politics get in the way of public health. WTAF!

Yes, this could be big. Renewed respect for the vagus nerve. #neuroplasticity

'Stop listening to those fringe nobody Covid Twitter scientists'

You mean the ones that made this year's TIME Top 100 Most Influential People in Health?

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Shout out to Prof. Akiko Iwasaki Ziyad Al-Aly, MD & Eric Topol for their focus on Long Covid 🙏

« Metformin reduced the odds of hospitalizations/death through 28 days by 58%, of emergency department visits/hospitalizations/death through 14 days by 42%, and of long COVID through 10 months by 42% » academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar…

Do you think orange would be a better colour to make it clearer to BC NDP Adrian Dix that Covid is not seasonal!
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Last year, COVID cases (and influenza) ramped up in late July 2023 but you would have had a hard time finding this out. There were no weekly COVID-19 Situation Reports last summer. And there will be none again this summer.
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Failure to learn. Around and around we go.
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Very honored to be included in the TIME 100 list of the most influential people in health, for my role in 'A better booster' #PrimeandSpike 👃🏽 #mucosalimmunity

Grateful to TIME for also mentioning our efforts on #longCOVID #PAIS #MECFS
Yale Center for Infection and Immunity

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Honored and grateful to be included in TIME's list of the 100 Most Influential People in health.

See the full list here: time.com/time100health

#TIME100HEALTH TIME

Let’s do that with BC’s Clean Air Bill!

How to lead. Not about the individual. All about the goal: making the world a better place, a more caring place.
Ty Naheed Nenshi

The most pernicious piece of pseudoscience served up to the public in recent memory is that of 'immunity debt'. To be blunt: children keep getting pneumonia because they keep getting Covid-19.

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The ER cannot be the overflow department. Physicians cannot hold all the responsibility and have none of the authority for our healthcare system.

Taking a break from here, but wanted to share this...
Trained a technician for 8 months in microscopy to analyze some brain slides for me. Tech left the lab after their first box of #COVID brain slices and left me this card on my lab bench space. Now imagine the life of…

Public health departments spent 4 years minimizing the effects of COVID and now they have graduated to minimizing.... cockroaches.