Christopher Leighton MD, FRCPC🇨🇦🇺🇦
@ccleighton
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Radiation Oncologist (Ret), Undergrad Medical Educator x 20 years, Disability Rights, Nature Photography, Living with Transverse Myelitis/CVID 🏳️🌈 He/him
Ontario
Joined April 2011
We need to ask @fordnation @PBethlenfalvy why they feel it is fine that they leave disabled Ontarians in extreme poverty struggling to survive, many with complex disabilities and significant care needs? @CBCNews @CBCQueensPark @CTVToronto @CTVWindsor @globeandmail @TorontoStar
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Prasad is a medical community outcast, not because he is some special whistleblower, but because he learned how to make a fortune grifting off right wing COVID-19 and vaccine panic. Now, he’s Trump’s top vaccine regulator and he’s spreading lies that will hurt American kids.
NEW: In an email sent to staff this afternoon, CBER chief Vinay Prasad says the @US_FDA for the first time "will acknowledge that COVID-19 vaccines have killed American children," which he calls a "profound revelation."
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This is totally reckless. Vaccine safety claims require verified diagnoses, clear methods, rates per million doses, and rigorous assessment of confounders. This memo provides none of that. Whatever happened to showing your work before making causal claims this strong?
NEW: An internal F.D.A. memo said about 10 children died after getting the Covid shot. But experts want to see the data. Dr. Vinay Prasad: “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.” https://t.co/cgIJcVpy1n
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Vinay Prasad sent Tracey Høeg dumpster diving in VAERS for pretext to block access to flu vaccines, alter safety standards, end combo vaccines, & hold clinical trials to impossible standards. @FDACBER is supposed to regulate vaccines, not withhold them. FDA is as broken as CDC.
Big change: FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements Vinay Prasad signaled changes to annual flu shots, concurrent vaccines + more Prasad said his team found link between covid-19 shots and kids' deaths, prompting new approach w @rachel_roubein
https://t.co/2tmhsDj7mA
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My @BakerInstitute article on the historical basis of MAHA pseudoscience, its nefarious intent to crush U.S. medical schools, biomed journals, NIH. They’ve already begun the process with govt agencies, beginning with CDC, it look as though CBER FDA is next https://t.co/im2MxYTCDK
bakerinstitute.org
Facing funding cuts, rising professional stress, and federal health policy misalignments, physicians are experiencing mounting challenges. In this working paper, Dr. Peter J. Hotez examines the state...
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If you want to know why Hegseth is panicking about reminders that there is accountably for giving or carrying out illegal orders, it’s likely because he knows he has given illegal orders to murder people.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
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This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't. It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing "Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions." reporting by @AlexHortonTX @nakashimae
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"If you look at job growth between January and September ... for the past 15 years, it's only been worse once, and that was during the pandemic ... It is the worst first nine months for the labor market in 15 years."
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Trump & Sec Hegseth are random bombing boats presumably smuggling drugs in the waters near Venezuela meanwhile this is happening....
BREAKING: Trump to pardon former President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez. He was literally convicted and sentenced to 45 years in prison for drug trafficking — 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S. How does this make any sense?
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Devastating @wsj report on the real Trump-Russia deal: betray Ukraine in exchange for privileged business benefits for Trump insiders. https://t.co/QeVkvwyeZt
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Put a grandiose hematologist oncologist, populist & vaccine skeptic in charge of vaccines and you get this crap: Blaming some child deaths on covid shots, FDA vows stricter vaccine rules
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Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.
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ZERO cases of cervical cancer diagnosed in women under age 25 in Australia 🇦🇺 None . Nada . Zip. For the first time since records began! How did this happen? One word VACCINES!!!!!
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It's also extremely effective at preventing most types of anal canal and penile cancer. Cancer treatment for both tumour locations are extremely harsh. Our shared goals must be eradication of these cancers. Politicians should explain why it's not more widely available and free.
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Those who cannot be cured may become very symptomatic with disease in the pelvis compressing/infiltrating nerves leaving the sacrum into the legs causing severe neuropathic pain, leg swelling, bowel obstruction, renal failure from ureter compression, short of breath from mets etc
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Chemotherapy is given also. Side effects can be troublesome and late toxicity occurs in a small subset of patients but may be severe (requiring a colostomy for example). Patients who recur local or regionally may be cured 20-50% of the time.
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Politicians should observe how radiotherapy must be administered to cervical cancer patients. It's intrusive, often external beam followed by internal radiotherapy with metal & tubing deep in the vagina and uterus. It's repeated multiple times to give radiation in daily doses.
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The HPV vaccine should be broadly adopted without fees @fordnation @OntarioHealthOH It's the intervention that's effectively curative for HPV related cervical cancer (and other anogenital cancers in males and females) & some head & neck lymphomas. https://t.co/d20JokJqi1
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The existence of an effective HPV vaccine should have meant cervical cancer was stamped out. Instead, it’s the fastest growing cancer in Canada
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Watch Scott Galloway eviscerate Trump, Scott Bessent, and their fucked-up tariff policy that has alienated our allies, bankrupted working class families, and destroyed the "envy of the world" economy President Biden handed to Dirty Donald. 😳👇
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The failure to increase the #CanadianDisabilityBenefit by @CanadianPM @MarkJCarney is disappointing. Living with a severe disability in abject poverty is a legacy that 🇨🇦 government after government has endorsed. A $150 one time payment will not make a meaningful difference.
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