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son of refugee/prisoner | social medicine | primary care doctor | founding editor @harvardchanSPH | public policy @princeton | IG: drandrewbb
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Saw a patient recently without housing who was in and out of hospital. But how could we keep calling them “hard to reach” or “lost to follow-up” when they didn’t have a cell phone? Peer workers in the Stabilization Centre/ER set up a phone for him and the next morning I got a…
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The NFL apparently said play on and the teams locked arms and said no. That cannot be forgotten or revised for PR. Prayers with Damar Hamlin.
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it don’t matter your politics or party, this is one of the darkest/saddest days for canada in recent memory.
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it’s strange that the same people defending Aaron Rodgers as an “independent thinker” didn’t/won’t do the same for Colin Kaepernick.
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every man who was out there with my body my choice about vaccines better bring that same energy to uphold roe v wade.
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a reminder that colin kaepernick is still unemployed by the same nfl that is now showcasing social justice all day at the
#SuperBowl
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BREAKING: Canada is officially the world leader in fully vaccinated. major kudos to all the community/frontline workers who made this happen at a rate that’s peerless.
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do not look away — this is the violence in our city and chronic failure on housing as a human right.
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a person who has been surviving homelessness for years told me today:
“imagine if those trucks were tents? no chance in hell they would be there for a week.”
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Quebec announced a provincial vaccine record requirement — overnight their vaccine appointments doubled. public policy matters in a pandemic.
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Toronto never been prouder. we won’t live with a city under siege.
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we lost a 13-year old girl in a 2-bedroom home of essential workers that still don’t have paid sick leave or the vaccine we can’t have more tears from policymakers we need action now the heartbreak is swallowing us whole.
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it is -30 in toronto tonight. and this was picture of the TTC last night taken by
@fatnmostly
. do not look away — this is canada’s failure on housing as a human right. we need all levels of government to end homelessness now.
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Pediatric hospitals are limiting essential surgeries for children in operating rooms and we as adults are debating the discomfort of masking in malls.
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no no the truckers convoy do not get credit for the lifting of restrictions. it’s the millions of Canadians that stepped up for each other over the past two years and sacrificed so much to keep people they may never meet alive.
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there is nowhere in the world where you do not have to isolate after testing positive for covid — except for Alberta, Canada. this is shockingly anti-science/public health.
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Moderna wants to charge $130 for its Covid vaccine in 2023. It costs $3 to produce. And its development was funded almost entirely by the public.
A reminder that in 1923, Drs. Banting and Best sold their patent for insulin to the University of Toronto for $1 dollar.
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as a canadian, i’ll always have a hard time understanding how an 18 year old can purchase assault weapons unfettered in texas but the same 18 year old has to fight for reproductive rights and you call this freedom.
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Elon Musk championing unvaccinated Canadian truckers while also putting driverless trucks on the highway that could see all those driving jobs go extinct is very 2022.
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i don’t understand why the American media isn’t covering that the husband of lead organizer Tamara Lich was flown in to Ottawa on a private jet by a man whose name they don’t remember?
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toronto coming out for health workers and the health system all heart.
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“when you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”
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there really isn’t both sides here — the tolerable number of swastikas or confederate flags in our country is zero.
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a reminder that Drs. Banting and Best sold their patent for insulin to the University of Toronto for $1 dollar in 1923.
patients should not be having to choose between insulin as a life saving medication or their rent in 2022.
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i cannot believe this needs to be said but the trucker convoy is not the same as the women and everyone risking their lives in Iran for freedom and self-determination.
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This is so dangerous for public health. You are not only putting Dr. Fauci at risk, but deterring generations from public health leadership. This isn’t free speech, it’s absolute cowardice.
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when people keep saying “we need to learn to live with covid” without also calling for major public investments to protect people, what they’re really saying is they’re okay with covid being a disease for the poor, racialized, unhoused, people with disabilities, and our elders.
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2020 is robbing the world of superheroes — Chadwick Boseman, while privately battling cancer, raised over $4 million dollars/partnered for protective equipment to get to Black communities hardest hit by covid. superhero on every Rest in power/
#WakandaForever
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the virus has mutated a whole bunch of times and we as humankind are still debating whether masks can help with an airborne disease.
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i can’t even imagine what would happen if everyone brought the same energy and outrage about airports or rogers/cell service for health care and housing wait times.
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breaking: there are more COVID patients in the ICU than ever in the pandemic this morning. we need government action now –– this isn't about young people partying, this is social policy failures in motion.
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this team made history. this team obliterated ‘vaccine hesitancy’ and delivered ~3,200 vaccines in a weekend where not one person was turned away. the push continues under their leadership.
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if you choose to wear a mask indoors, you are not opposed to freedom. instead you might be aiding the freedom of someone who is immunocompromised to be there with you more safely.
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hi american media— when covering the protests here in Canada, please ensure you are aware of one of the lead organizer’s positions on “race and bloodlines”. unless of course, you already know and this is not egregious to you? we have to/will call this out.
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One of the country’s largest pediatric hospitals has called in the Red Cross to help with patient volumes and we are still debating the sustainably of our health system?
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grief is the garden of compassion stretching 7km in London tonight.
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if you decide that people need $2,000 a month to survive with CERB how can you justify keeping payments to people with disabilities at less than $1,500 a month? it is inhumane public policy.
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BREAKING: the Canadian government has mandated covid vaccines for all federal employees. crucial step forward.
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There are virtually no more pediatric ICU beds left and hospital CEOs are pleading for the public to mask, but our policymakers are waiting on what exactly?
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hi Canada the same Alex Jones that caused irreparable harm to the families of sandy hook just recently praised Pierre Poilievre as the rising star of the global far right movement. tell us again how what’s happening in the United States isn’t/can’t be happening here.
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for anyone telling you this holiday season “the vaccines don’t work.”
latest CDC data:
Unvaccinated: 6.1 deaths per 100k
Vaccinated: 0.5 deaths per 100k
Boosted: 0.1 deaths per 100k
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there being puppies at this children’s vaccine clinic in Quebec is perfection. via
@picardonhealth
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michael kovrig suffered 1000 days without his freedom, returned to Canada and saw “freedom protests”over the weekend and then went and did this to combat the disease. hero.
Today I had the honor of providing this man with his first dose at
#LawlorPharmasave
#pharmacy
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"I want everyone to know this, vaccines are the best way to combat this disease".
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#MichaelKovrig
*Shared with permission*
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there is no as a canadian or any room to be smug when over 80 members of parliament voted to restrict rights to abortion and 90% of women in New Brunswick cannot access abortion services today.
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it is becoming clearer and clearer that the international airport delays weren’t due to masking/vaccine mandates, but rather due to staff shortages as the pandemic is not over.
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This Christmas please don’t say we can’t afford housing for all. We can no longer afford the cruelty of the status quo.
A month in provincial jail costs: $9,400
Month in hospital: $20,100
Month in shelter: $6,600
Social housing per month: $2,500
Housing is a human right.
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we cannot have indoor sporting events with 20,000+ unmasked or without a third dose and tell those masked and with three doses/rapid tests that they can’t see their families — the policy hypocrisy is just too great.
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always had reservations about the term “vaccine hesitancy”— today i was told a client was declining and the she only spoke Farsi. i got the chance to sit and speak with her and after covering any questions/also learning that our fathers were from the same town, she got the shot.
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if you are looking for the “counter-protest” it will be thousands of health workers dressing like health workers going into work to care for people, vaccinated or not, and the tens of thousands of people stepping up for vaccines in face of the threats and intimidation.
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rogers a reminder as to how privatization won’t cure health care.
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it is not “burnout” when a broken system is lighting its workers on fire.
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A new policy rule: you can’t keep increasing police budgets while calling housing and health care too expensive.
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i just got asked about the “politicization” of choosing to wear a mask. let’s be sure — if you decide to keep wearing a mask tomorrow, it is not a political stance, it’s an act of care/love for those around you and keeping science/evidence in motion.
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two years later covid has figured out how to evade our immune systems as we as a species still debate the effectiveness of masks for an airborne pathogen.
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a hospital bed without health workers is a mattress.
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i'll never get over how we produced a vaccine for a virus we knew nothing about in less than year but we still can't ensure everyone has access to clean drinking water or eradicate homelessness and poverty with forever known solutions.
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wearing a mask does not mean the vaccines don’t work the same way having to wear a seatbelt doesn’t mean the airbags won’t help.
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a beautiful family of five were victims of terrorism in Canada — the language we use has always mattered.
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reminder now a month in:
provincial jail costs- $9,400
hospital ward- $18,900
shelter- $6,000
social housing- $1,545
housing is a matter of social justice and sound economics.
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i know some will say “this isn’t canada” but it’s hard to explain to some of us how on the same day 5 years later of the Quebec mosque shooting, there are organizers spouting islamophobia with confederate flags and they are being greeted by elected officials with donuts/coffee.
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"[NFL] can say whatever it wants to say about [playing the game]... a group of men locked arms on different sides of a sideline and said no we're not."- SVP
"I'm so glad that these guys didn't have to go back out on this field tonight and try to play a damn game."- Ryan Clark
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if we are on day 5 and Ottawa police won’t issue fines because it could “incite violence”, i don’t know how you continue to call this “peaceful”.
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sorry no you can’t have terry fox as a hero and also be okay with “just people with cancer and co-morbidities dying from covid.”
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this is big — first University of Ottawa and now Western University — need every university to step up with vaccine requirements to fill this policy leadership vacuum.
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feels like it went from “we’re all in this together” to “you’re on your own” real quick.
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I cried seeing this photo of Gabriel Magalhaes’ mother, Andrea. She said she “never wanted to get up again” but felt she had to speak out on the systemic injustices around homelessness and mental health. There is no more courageous hero tonight. People/families deserve better.
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whatever your feelings about vaccines or vaccine policy — let’s be sure — they did not cause the closure of schools, health care clinics and businesses today in Ottawa.
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i‘m sorry i just don’t know how we ever reconcile a human being freezing to death — this morning — in one of the world’s richest cities because they had no where to sleep while we spend millions for protestors to occupy our capital.
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I’ll never get over how we now have four effective vaccines for a virus we knew virtually nothing about a year ago but still won’t ensure everyone has access to clean drinking water or eradicate homelessness and poverty with forever known solutions.
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We cannot police people out of poverty. There is a more humane and cost-effective way with housing for all. Study after study:
A month in prison costs: $9,400
Month in hospital: $30,100
Month in shelter: $6,600
Supportive housing per month: $2,500
Housing is a human right.
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i hope every policymaker reads this by
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“Refusing vaccination is a right. But working in a LTC home, attending a Colter Wall concert and having a meal indoors at Boston Pizza are not rights. They are privileges for which vaccination should be a prerequisite.”
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some men would rather buy twitter than go to therapy and now we all have to suffer.
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hi media let’s please stop using the term “elective surgery.” these are/may be non- emergent but let’s not diminish the thousands of people/patients that have to prolong suffering because of our pandemic response.
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breaking: Quebec is moving forward to ban anti-vax protests outside schools or hospitals. hope this same decency can be extended to students/families and health workers across the country asap.
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the same people trying to sell you on privatization as the panacea for our health care crisis seem awfully quiet when it comes to the failed MRI privatization pilot in Saskatchewan or the horrific tragedy that happened in for-profit long term care homes. we cannot be duped here.
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A children’s hospital is running out of cribs and we are still talking about “personal choice”.
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Breaking: Quebec is implementing covid rapid antigen testing in schools with results in ~15 minutes. Need to see this scale across the country.
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Please don’t look at American politics and say we’re any different. This is gross — no matter your political stripe.
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1,000 people lining up in ‘hotspot’— community vaccine confidence in motion.
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no no no toronto police — we don’t need the memo: “not to look like health workers to avoid harm.” we will keep doing our job. we need you to do yours to keep us safe and every patient/family who needs care.
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hi
@TheTorontoSun
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no you can’t recruit misogynists/white supremacists in canada and then pretend you care about women’s rights in iran.
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that virtually every paediatrician in the country will be having their kids vaccinated is a public message that can’t be overstated.
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This is Toronto last night in -29 C weather taken by
@ChrisYphoto
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as a physician who sees the brutality of police force, i don’t see any of us calling for such against the convoy. but what many of us feel, viscerally, is the deep injustice of a system that is designed to punish communities of colour/people in poverty and accommodate privilege.
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a reminder that Novak Djokovic may still be allowed to play in the Australian Open with a vaccine exemption in a pandemic while Naomi Osaka was not accommodated for mental health and had to withdraw from the French Open.
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the amount of money spent on police over the past 21 days could help house every individual surviving homelessness in ottawa for a year.
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Kids not being in school and no one being able to take the GO train to work can’t be great for a province that prides itself on being open for business.
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the formula: underinvest in health care. underinvest in education. systems begin to falter. workers step up as heroes. workers burnout due to system failures. propose private fixes. then blame individuals instead of investing in the public system. cycle on repeat.
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a friendly reminder that wearing a mask this holiday weekend to help keep others safe/alive is not a “lockdown”.
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I’ll never understand how airlines can make you remove your shoes without any uproar but putting on a mask to help stop the transmission of a virus that has killed in 1 in 332 Americans is somehow an abomination.
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. The reason: The country applies the Housing First concept. Those affected by homelessness receive a small apartment and counselling – without any preconditions. And: All this is cheaper than accepting homelessness.”
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