Thanks ON Morning CBC for having me on this morning to talk about public health response to the drug poisoning crisis and closure of the CTS.

An image of a person holding a syringe and inserting the syringe into a COVID vaccine vial.

COVID vaccines are tied to less hospital care, long COVID, and economic burden.

A large study in Germany shows lower hospitalization, all-cause death rates, and health care costs in vaccinated people.

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My huge thanks to the tremendous staff who have worked at the CTS for all of the love and support they’ve given the most under-served in our community over the past 3 years.

I just finished my last quarterly meeting with staff at the soon to be closed Consumption and Treatment Site. This is a loss for our community, that, come summer, will be seen in our streets, ambulances, emerges and in deaths of people using drugs.

School Difficulties and Long COVID in Children and Adolescents Pediatric Long COVID (LC) is an infection-associated chronic condition following SARS-CoV-2 infection. While research has begun to elucidate clinical phenotypes, functional impacts are not well descri...

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Got so enraged, had to do a video

I just worry this is all about money, nothing to do with prevention and health.

Your friendly reminder: the nearly evidence-less ‘wellness industry’ is worth $7 trillion per year, 4X the pharmaceutical industry.

I think it is great to be critical about pharmaceuticals, while maintaining sanity and understanding that meds have a key place in treatment and secondary prevention.

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Still worth efforts to avoid and prevent COVID-19. Improvements in air quality/ventilation, masking, testing/staying home when sick, mouthwash are all effective strategies, if you haven’t read our guideline our addressing these interventions and more:

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COVID-19 drove recent leap in preventable respiratory hospitalizations, report says Hospital admission rates for such diseases more than doubled in 2024-2025 compared with prepandemic levels

COVID-19 drove recent leap in preventable respiratory hospitalizations, report says

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Trump post that opens “A whole civilization will die tonight…”

Are people more outraged by Trump AI-playing Jesus than the “a whole civilization will die” threat?

We often talk about the success introducing vaccinations had a generation ago, with diseases that we now no longer see. Here’s an exciting success story of a new vaccine that has dramatically reduced hospitalization from RSV in children in Ontario.
#vaccines #science #health #publichealth

We are in Port Hope, Northumberland County this evening for the @phlakelands Lakelands Public Health Townhall! Don’t miss your chance to learn about and chat public health.

Saving lives and freeing up hospital capacity.

We often talk about the success introducing vaccinations had a generation ago, with diseases that we now no longer see. Here’s an exciting success story of a new vaccine that has dramatically reduced hospitalization from RSV in children in Ontario.
#vaccines #science #health #publichealth

Haliburton County! It’s a great day for 🦆 and also to come out and chat public health at the Lakelands Public Health Town Hall. 4pm today at the Minden Community Centre.

Forced and coerced sterilization of Indigenous women has a long history in Canada — and it hasn’t ended. On an upcoming (MIS)Treated, @namshine.bsky.social speaks with Harmony Redsky of The Survivors Circle for Reproductive Justice about Bill S‑228.
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I may not be a mathematician but these headlines are telling. 🏠

In 1985 the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts.

Healthcare workers could lead a renewed charge again against Nuclear War.

This week’s threats of “erasing a civilization” were the brink of nuclear war and should reignite the work to deproliferate from nuclear weapons. We don’t need these doomsday weapons in the control of powerful and crazy men, and they risk our species and planet.

I just want to give kudos to the Peterborough transit @cityptbo.bsky.social driver who walked a lady in through the slippery icy snow to the YMCA this morning. Above and beyond caring!

As they say… April snow brings… May solidarity?

The healthcare system may be challenged, strained, but it’s pretty darn amazing most of the time. It could be better, but I’m so grateful we have a universal one here in 🇨🇦. Cherish and protect it ❤️

Seeing people on their hardest day, and seeing colleagues work tirelessly to help them through it is always inspirational. It always reminds me how much of a gift health is, when we have it it’s easy to forget.

I love having the opportunity to keep a foot in the hospital seeing patients as a doctor. It keeps me grounded and grateful 🙏.

Yeah that’s cool

Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.

The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.

Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

I’m not a doctor. Just a historian who can say emphatically that a vaccinated child is a safe child. And if your child cannot be vaccinated, those around them should be.
Your eldest elders remember. Listen and learn from their experiences.

Vaccine preventable diseases like Polio feel a world away. But Polio was in New York as recently as a few years ago. 2 kids have died of measles in Ontario in the last couple of years. These are not foreign threats, they’re here, and tragically, returning.

L still avidly follows news. She was telling me she couldn’t believe some families are choosing to not vaccinate their kids.

L: “I wish they knew what we knew, saw what we saw, felt the fear that we felt.