@drjohnorchard.bsky.social
Sport and exercise medicine physician, injury and illness prevention. Cricket, football, sports cardiology, climate emergency, covid-cautious, pro-vaccine, evidence-based medicine. Adjunct Professor University of Sydney @medsky.social
Iβve added an Excess Deaths Comparison page to my analysis on that topic. Here Iβm comparing the UK, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand, to June 2025.
My method projects "Expected Deaths" using a linear regression on the weekly deaths (4-week average) from a baseline of 2015-2019 deaths.
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It's budget time so at the end of our interview w/ Mayor Bachynski, we gave him a printed poster of the image below. It's the density vs services vs taxes venn diagram that @brenttoderian.bsky.social often shares around. It includes Regina-related explanatory notes. #yqrcc
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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
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Proud to be an author in this fantastic book
Had a great SCG launch of #cricketsportsmedicine at the SCG this week during NSW vs Vic Shield game. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Altmetric score of the book is climbing and weβve received first news reference in this article theconversation.com/australias-r... with some more author photos below
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Had a great SCG launch of #cricketsportsmedicine at the SCG this week during NSW vs Vic Shield game. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
14.11.2025 09:13 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 1 π 1A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor.
A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
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New version of OSIICS 16, with extra female injury codes (esp related to breast), open access
As Iβve explained: one of the best ways to protect your heart health is to keep up with your Covid and flu vaccinations. Donβt listen to antivaccine activists they donβt care about you or your family www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
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BREAKING: Wind power just supplied 150% of South Australiaβs electricity demand. Fossil fuels? A heroic 1.5%. Thoughts and prayers to everyone who said βrenewables will never keep the lights on.β Must be hard watching your entire argument get blown away.
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In the 'very unsurprising' category today...
Major study finds tooth decay in Queensland children has declined since water fluoridation expanded.
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Itβs not βpartisanβ to defend science, evidence, and objective reality.
Itβs partisan to attack science, evidence, and objective reality, to benefit your political βteam.β
Thatβs true with climate science, with vaccinology, & with evidence-based city-building, all of which are being attacked.
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On the ICE shooting.
1. It's terrible.
2. Too many disturbed people have access to too many guns in this country.
3. Too many political figures use incendiary and dehumanizing rhetoric. By far the most significant of them is the president. The fish of political violence rots from the head down.
Still one of the best #Australia #guncontrol #USA
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We have always been at war with Tylenol
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Look, itβs Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.
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I am starting to think itβs bad that we have an executive branch made up of 90% podcasters
22.09.2025 14:24 β π 1897 π 221 π¬ 49 π 11joining the war on autism on the side of autism
22.09.2025 18:23 β π 6071 π 1926 π¬ 10 π 36none of this anti-science nonsense is remotely funny except perhaps for this bit
23.09.2025 02:39 β π 24 π 11 π¬ 3 π 0We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes.
That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.
Our review just out: Associations Between Common Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis Treatments and All-Cause Mortality
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Key finding: Exercise and GLP-1 RA prescription are associated with reduced all-cause mortality.
@drjohnorchard.bsky.social
Exercise and weight loss reduce mortality, opiates increase mortality and joint replacement reduces mortality for 10 years then increases thereafter
21.09.2025 10:24 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. Itβs like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Letβs get a grip on whatβs happening here.
21.09.2025 00:56 β π 59057 π 16357 π¬ 1343 π 633www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/13... Associations between common hip and knee osteoarthritis treatments and all-cause mortality pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40941581
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Most "unfair muscle mass " in sports, is straight cis boys taking steroids.
Most "gender affirming care for children," is straight cis boys getting gyno surgery to remove the unwanted boobs that they grew, because they took steroids.
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Biggest cumulative crowds for V/AFL games on consecutive days
195,620 - 2025 Sep 19-20
99,597 GEEL v HAW PF
96,023 COLL v BRIS PF
184,662 - 2023 Sep 07-08
92,636 coll v melb QF
92,026 carl v syd EF
183,213 - 2018 Sep 06-07
91,446 rich v haw QF
91,767 melb v geel EF
#AFL
