Pinned
The proudest moment of my life.
First Exposure launches today. 4 years in the making. So incredibly proud of the entire team.
“Ontario program to help expectant parents with advice on medication fills gap left by shuttered Motherisk lab”
Sabina Vohra-Miller
14K posts
Sabina Vohra-Miller
@SabiVM
Dr Public Health candidate | MSc Pharmacology/Toxicology | Vohra Miller Foundation w @craigmillr | Unambiguous Science | First Exposure | South Asian Health Nw
- The amazing @DrSamiraJeimy and I collaborated on a post because we are both tired of seeing the term ‘immunity debt’ being thrown around. We also get into why we are seeing a record number of pediatric hospitalizations, so stick with us. 🧵(1/8)
- The irony of removing even the measly 5-day Covid isolation bc people need to get back to work, only to infect large swathes of people who then need to take time off work, causing a larger worker crisis. I mean, our govt actually thought this would work?
- The immediate answer to variants should not be third boosters. It should be global vaccine equity. We will continue to have new, more virulent variants if we allow the virus to grow unchecked. What happens in another part of the world will absolutely impact us.
- My child had RSV at 10 weeks & again at 22 months. Both times resulted in multiple ER visits + hospital stay. Absolutely ZERO advantage for him to have had RSV at a young age, only risks (both acute & longer term). Anyone suggesting willful illness in children has lost their way.
- 38% voter turnout. Tomorrow when the Greenbelt is demolished, when our healthcare capacity crashes, when our children’s education is deprioritized & support systems removed, when disparities between communities widen - don’t complain, because this is exactly what you wanted.
- Never in a million years did I think that when we talk about ‘the pandemic’ we would have to specify WHICH pandemic and disease we were referring to. And yet, here we are.
- New data: Reinfection was found to substantially increase the risk of death, hospitalization, and adverse health outcomes, making strategies preventing reinfection critical. Summary 🧵 1/9
- We have a massive shortage of pediatric fever reducing meds, several anti-histamines and antibiotics. Where is the Canadian Pediatric Society? Health Canada? PHAC/PHO? Why is absolutely no one sharing any guidelines or recommendations on what parents with sick children should do?
- Time for some serious myth-busting on: MODERNA vs PFIZER Hint: they’re pretty much interchangeable. Here’s why (a little pharmacology and a little immunology): 🧵
- To physicians who say children don’t need a Covid-19 vaccine: do you also advocate against other vaccines for diseases that cause fewer pediatric deaths than Covid? How many vaccine preventable deaths makes a vaccine worth it? If you don’t believe in vaccines, why be in medicine?
- Masks on a population level didn’t work as well as we hoped bc we eroded trust in them from the get-go. From suggesting they are unnecessary early on, to unscrupulous studies claiming they are dangerous, to not teaching how to don/doff, to not acknowledging airborne transmission.
- How did the narrative on masks sway so heavily? Plenty of data to show the benefits, and no data right now to suggest ill-effects in majority of the population, including children. We can’t wish Covid away, why wouldn’t we do all we can to prevent unnecessary re-infections?
- Just a reminder, as the names of those who contributed to the trucker convoy become exposed - the leak is from the NEW platform. So everyone who contributed was AWARE the convoy was illegal & breaking laws. This realization is costing me many friendships, and I’m okay with that.
