Jeffrey Pernica
@JeffPernica
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Paediatrician, infectious disease specialist, associate professor. Views my own.
McMaster University, Hamilton.
Joined October 2018
To all the incredible #WomenInMedicine - Happy #IWD2022 🧠❤️💪🏼 @CdnWIM @CMA_Docs @FMWCanada @DocMCohen @tara_kiran #cdnhealth #BreakTheBias #healthcare Opinion: The future of medicine looks female. The culture needs to catch up /via @globeandmail
theglobeandmail.com
Amidst a pandemic that has exacerbated strain on the health care system, we need to keep an eye on how inclusive we are being
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I stand by my long-time colleague and friend and call upon those attacking her character and integrity to immediately desist.
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I hardly tweet anything...maybe because I am a boring person...but this is important:
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Mental Health Care Utilization Among Children and Adolescents Before and During COVID-19 in Ontario https://t.co/7vd99ZXMFY via @JAMAPediatrics part of @JAMANetwork
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A leader in #AdolescentMedicine, Dr Natasha Johnson has written policy for @CanPaedSociety, and was recently appointed Assoc Chair of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at McMaster's Dept of Pediatrics @mac_peds @teen_mac @JohnsonTasha848
#BlackHistoryMonth
https://t.co/yixP6xGQHl
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I’ve been thinking the last few days how it’s hard for non-specialists, watching a twitter spat between apparent experts, to know who to believe. Here are a few things I bear in mind when following people outside my own field. A far from exhaustive list 1/n
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Thanks for this thread 🧵 D on the first day of #BHM . I will add the book to my reading list.
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Imagine the violent response if it was Indigenous people that caused a fraction of these damages in downtown Ottawa. @OttawaPolice Full Riot Gear, Mace, Dogs, Water Canons, Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets, and @CanadianArmy on standby.
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📢📢Your Black, Indigenous, Racialized, Muslim, and Jewish friends may not be ok right now. Confederate-waving, white supremacist, swastika-displaying people are hanging out in our nation’s capital. Allowed to freely spew their hate without impediment. Let 👏🏾That.👏🏾Sink👏🏾In👏🏾. 💔
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To end the pandemic, Canada needs to lead vaccine efforts abroad: "getting a booster dose is a moment of privilege and more action is needed to get doses to countries which haven’t received their first shot." says @ananya_tb #TRIPSwaiver
https://t.co/yAyMfShQpn via @CTVNews
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A brand new #JAMA users' guide, hot off the press, on how to use the report of a platform #trial (very popular in #COVID trials such as #Solidarity and #Recovery and a number of others). https://t.co/bMwfP6ys1y
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Should children return to the classroom during an Omicron surge? | CBC Radio
cbc.ca
As cases of COVID-19 cases rise because of the Omicron variant, provinces are coming up with different decisions on whether children should be back in school or not.
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Canada is buying more sotrovimab! Well done and will support efforts to get drug into the higher risk patients
reuters.com
GlaxoSmithKline PLC said on Thursday it has signed agreements with the Canadian government to supply 20,000 more doses of its COVID-19 drug, as the country battles a surge in infections driven by the...
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WATCH LIVE | CBC Toronto News at 6 on Jan. 5 with your host @chrisgloverCBC and climatologist @BlacksWeather.
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There is evidence learning has suffered among Hamilton students since the onset of the pandemic. But to what degree? https://t.co/FIjV6RYL9b via @thespec
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