Here is a video version

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I can’t share the recording of my @escmid.bsky.social talk here directly, but I’ve used Google Notebooks LM to make a podcast version of it

Hope you enjoy it.

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Kaiserschmarrn!!!

They do have exceptional pretzels

And I have now experienced Kaiserschmarrn…

It’s a great meeting. I’m going to do an ai video of my talk and will post here in case it’s of interest.

We had a really nice session today on the year in public health: the good/bad/ugly, and there’s lots of all 3

wie geht’s

Ich kann jetzt mit dir in Deutsch rede! Ich spreche viel besser!

Haha

I’m big in Germany

A really important critique of the flawed @AnnalsofIM masks vs respirators trial. Good on
@bmj_latest for publishing it

www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Excited to see this region is progressive on the dogs being allowed to drive issue

What a treat to be at @escmid.bsky.social Global in Munich. Excited to network with and learn from global colleagues

how’s that Nobel peace prize coming

The weather in Toronto rn makes me think God saw Trump’s social media posts

Ontario: ”Yoo-hoo!”

U.S Navy’s $200 Million MQ-4C Triton Drone Goes Missing Over Strait Of Hormuz Marine Insight - The maritime industry guide.

you see, this is why tiles are so great

www.marineinsight.com/u-s-navys-20...

[sound effect of me throwing hat on ground and stomping on it]

but

Farewell, worst ever Hungarian meatball

I swear if you don’t open this strait this minute I’m going to, uh, close it

my daughter wants me to make myself a t shirt that says “UNC” 😔

I remember playing Mario cart with my daughter and one of her friends when they were 7 or 8 and her friend said to me “you’re goin down, old man”

Doug Ford wants to put jets over Toronto's harbour. Here's why that should alarm you.

Some thoughts on Toronto’s proposed airport expansion, written from my perspectives as a harbor user and epidemiologist

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@serenapurdy.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social @juliedabrusin.bsky.social @liberalca.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com

The effects are so ridiculously clean. Concentrated in under 65 year olds with no record of immune compromise

Work in progress: sars-2 clearly increases risk of tuberculosis activation in central Ontario, on a timeline that is consistent with T cell injury. It does not impact risk of non tuberculous mycobacterial infections

More follows

Suggest you take a deep dive into the relationship between GRADE (including its for-profit spinoffs), McMaster university, PHAC, and WHO. Given the endless accusations that others have CoI, it’s pretty fascinating. You can piece together from public info

Tis transient but thank you

Higher SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Burden Among Racialized Individuals: Evidence from Canadian Serology Data Introduction: COVID-19 transmission has not been evenly distributed across racial groups, with exposure being shaped by social and structural factors. The emergence of highly transmissible variants (i...

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

You hate to see it

The usual ;)

Seroprevalence Convergence Does Not Reflect Transmission Equity: Persistent Socioeconomic Disparities in COVID-19 Force of Infection in Canada Background Socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 outcomes have been widely documented, but evidence regarding inequities in SARS-CoV-2 transmission remains mixed. In Canada, infection-induced seroprev...

Socioeconomic disparities in COVID risk in Canada: persistence despite widespread infection risk

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Population Attributable Mortality Associated with Respiratory Viruses in Ontario Background Respiratory viruses are major contributors to population mortality, but cause-of-death coding undercounts their impact. Ecological regression models linking viral circulation to mortality f...

Sars-cov-2 and influenza: attributable fractions of all cause mortality in Ontario

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