To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips.
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Isaac Bogoch
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Infectious Diseases physician and scientist, with thoughts on infectious diseases, tropical medicine, HIV prevention, public health, and global health security.
- Pretty incredible milestone for the ICU at Toronto General Hospital👇COVID-free for the first time since March 26, 2020! 🎉 This is the first time the MSICU at Toronto General does not have any COVID patients. We are very grateful for the extraordinary MSICU team! #ThankYou
00:00 - (Toronto General Hospital, 5:45 AM) Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas & happy holiday season. Thank you to all who are working today.
- Ontario's new measures to curb #COVID19: 1. Limiting non-essential travel - helpful 2. Prolonging stay at home - helpful 3. Increasing hotspot vaccine - helpful 4. Defining essential work - helpful 5. Support for essential workers - absent 6. Limiting outdoor recreation - huh?
- Ontario's closure of outdoor recreational activities (including pickleball!) to control #COVID19 does not make sense. Outdoor activities are vital for mental & physical health, especially with stay-at-home orders. Science is clear: Outdoor COVID transmission is extremely rare.
- Writing is on the wall...Omicron will replace Delta and vaccines will still work, but 3 doses better than 2. We should open 3rd doses to 18+ to keep ahead of this variant in 🇨🇦
- 1. Canada vaccinated over 400000 people yesterday (technically 400,489, or ~1% of pop). 2. Over 40% of adults have received at least a single dose. 3. We are ranked 3rd of G20 countries for % of population who received at least 1 dose. 🇨🇦 moving quickly in the right direction.
- ANYBODY in Ontario who lives in a high burden neighbourhood who is 18 years and older will be eligible for #COVID19 vaccination. This will help essential workers, families, communities, etc. A very smart move.
- Pfizer's antiviral COVID pill (Paxlovid) will be approved in Canada imminently. Fantastic news. We can put this to good use.
- To the people tapping on watermelons in grocery stores trying to determine if they are ready: WE know you don't know what you're doing. YOU know you don't know what you're doing. Can we stop with this charade?
- 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.
- 183,399 #COVID19 vaccines were administered in Ontario, as of 8pm today. You read that right...>183K, the most vaccines administered in the province in a single day. By far. Happy Victoria Day long weekend everyone. (Darting Raven, by Kenojuak Ashevak, h/t @CanadaPaintings)
- Replying to @GovCanHealthYeah, nobody cares. I'm still going with Pfizer, Moderna, & AZ rather than [unpronounceable], the name of a D-division volleyball team, and Vaxixkckerkrzvia.
- Locking down does not protect essential workers, who, by virtue of being 'essential', still have to go to work. Policies to protect essential workers protect the individual, the community & curb the pandemic faster (e.g. paid sick leave, creating safer work spaces, vaccination).







