David Fisman
@DFisman
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Notoriously unfair to viruses, bacteria, fungi, anti-vaxxers, and the Toronto Star. Roasting marshmallows over Elon’s trash-fire, but with declining frequency.
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4. Aggregation of covid together with other respiratory pathogens in surveillance data. This last one makes no sense given the distinct epidemiologies of different viruses…only makes sense if you want stuff to become invisible.
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1. Defunding of wastewater surveillance.2. “Test-to-treat” restrictions from Ontario’s cmoh.3. Restriction of covid testing to hospital inpatients for hospital labs (which I believe have also had funding cuts).And.
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I’m not sure how aware folks are of changes to covid surveillance over the last few months that really look like a coordinated effort to make covid disappear by making surveillance disappear . These include:.
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Non-transparency of health data (created on the public dime) is not a new problem in Canada. But it continues to negatively affect the health of Canadians. It needs to change. Aggregate numbers are not personal health information.
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A head-in-the-sand approach will raise the transmission of diseases, increase infections and further erode the Public Health Agency of Canada’s ability to safeguard the health of Canadians.
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RT @DrGorfinkel: Ontario’s Test-to-Treat Guidelines .force clinics to RATION COVID TESTS . …in spite of KNOWN HARMS
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RT @DrGorfinkel: Dear Dr. Kieran Moore:. Repeat infections⤴️the risk of Long COVID, even in people fully vaccinated. Ontario's new T….
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RT @DrGorfinkel: HEALTH DATA HOARDING has become a POLITICAL TOOL used for PERSONAL GAIN . … but its ULTIMATE COSTS are paid by Canada’s M….
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RT @Mark_Ungrin: @picardonhealth @DrGorfinkel @DFisman @TorontoStar @UofT_Pandemics Excellent article. Reminds me of this section from th….
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RT @picardonhealth: Canada is no longer reporting deaths and hospitalizations due to #COVID19. Not knowing the “who, when and where” of COV….
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A head-in-the-sand approach will raise the transmission of diseases, increase infections and further erode the Public Health Agency of Canada’s ability to safeguard the health of Canadians.
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RT @Mark_Ungrin: Just updated our preprint assessing the 2022 study that claimed medical masks to be noninferior to N95s for COVID. In addi….
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Happy 7 1/2 month birthday to the fairly straightforward plagiarism complaint I brought forward to @WileyGlobal . I have no doubt the folks at the lab are working on it in shifts
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I’m sure there’s no official ranking (yet) but “I talked to our FOIA person and she told me how to evade FOI” has to be the greatest line ever to appear in a FOIA’d email. @GWR @BiosafetyNow.
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NIH adviser David Morens can’t recall if he deleted COVID records, laughs off Fauci FOIA evasions.
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RT @OhCasavant: I've formatted @trishgreenhalgh 🔥🧵& saved as PDF:. Feel free to use! I want to turn the screencaps….
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RT @CaulfieldTim: Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review ".….
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Great and accessible breakdown of our new evidence review on masks and respirators. On the ‘gram 😊. @trishgreenhalgh @Globalbiosec .@UofT_Pandemics .
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RT @mdc_martinus: WHO Chief Scientist with over 82,000 followers posted this about 6 hours ago and it generated exactly… ZERO likes. What….
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