Isaac Bogoch
@BogochIsaac
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Infectious Diseases physician and scientist, with thoughts on Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine, HIV Prevention, Public Health, and Global Health issues.
University of Toronto
Joined February 2019
We're not going to '3rd dose' our way out of the pandemic just like we were never going to mask our way out. Vaccines (especially 1st & 2nd but also 3rd), masks, rapid tests, ventilation, sound policy, etc. each is a helpful tool providing additional/incremental benefit.
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Measles cases in Ontario are on the decline (since May).
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An independent group of experts has reviewed all available evidence on SARS-CoV-2's origins, including lab leak & natural spillover. Uncertainty remains. Only a methodical & rigorous approach (not partisanship or premature certainty) will lead us to credible answers.
Today, WHO’s Scientific Advisory Group on the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a group convened by WHO, released a report on the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the #COVID19 pandemic. For this report, SAGO reviewed peer-reviewed papers and reviews, as well as
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RT @jakescottMD: Loud claims are circulating that “no childhood vaccine was ever tested against placebo.” That is flat-out wrong. Here’s….
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To our American friends seeking data-driven and independent vaccine advice, please check out Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI): . Evidence-based insights & expert guidance. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦. Link:
On Monday, I took a major step towards restoring public trust in vaccines by reconstituting the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). I retired the 17 current members of the committee. I’m now repopulating ACIP with the eight new members who will attend ACIP’s.
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RT @KindrachukJason: Update #1: Rolling clinical and epi updates for #mpox data from #SierraLeone. Watch for updated versions as additional….
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Sad news from Ontario:. "It is with deep sadness that I confirm that an infant, born prematurely and infected with measles, has tragically passed away in southwestern Ontario.".-Dr. Kieren Moore, CMOH.
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RT @angie_rasmussen: An important commentary from Isaac and my colleagues at PHAC. As worried as I am about the situation in the US, I am….
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RT @KindrachukJason: Rolling clinical and epi updates for #mpox data from #SierraLeone. Watch for updated versions as additional data becom….
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RT @guerreroespejo: 3 cases of #gonorrhea in Germany involved #resistance to the therapeutically important third-generation cephalosporins….
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Forgotten but not gone: COVID rates in Canada have been low & declining for several months. However, the Omicron subvariant NB.1.1.8 has been more prevalent in SE Asia & it's likely we'll see more of that here in the near future. (Red = 2022-23; Yellow = 2023-24; Blue = 2024-25)
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RT @jakescottMD: Our crowd-sourced spreadsheet of controlled vaccine RCTs just hit 189 trials - spanning Adenovirus to Zika & 2.1 million p….
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RT @syramadad: The U.S. finally approved artesunate, the gold-standard malaria drug, in 2020 but its price jumped to $30,000 vs. $5 abroad.….
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1/ HIV Post-Exposure Prophylaxis-in-Pocket (PEP-in-Pocket, or "PIP") is a method to prevent HIV infections in people with less frequent & sometimes unanticipated exposures to HIV. PIP is now integrated in the newly published WHO PEP Guidelines:
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1/ Good news. PEP-in-Pocket ("PIP") joins the CDC's HIV prevention toolkit. "Health care professionals might consider a 'PEP-in-pocket' (PiP) strategy for certain patients with infrequent, repeated HIV exposures who decline to use PrEP.".
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RT @NathanLo3579: Our new study in @LancetMicrobe on the population-level impact of novel drugs against schistosomiasis, including drugs wi….
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The measles outbreak in Ontario continues to grumble along, with 1,646 cases reported in 2025. To date, the outbreak has occurred primarily (though not exclusively) among unvaccinated individuals in under-vaccinated communities in southwestern Ontario.
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The vast majority of people infected in the Ontario measles outbreak are unvaccinated.
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