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#ICRE2025 Resident co-chairs take the stage - and tell us what’s in store for the next few days at Med Ed “summer camp”! @rwc90.bsky.social @khoshnevis.bsky.social @olamideogunt.bsky.social @icreconf.bsky.social

Want a taste of what #ICRE2025 has to offer but can’t make it in person? Register for virtual attendance and sample the conference’s cutting-edge and thought-provoking plenaries on medical education—all from the comfort of your home! icre.royalcollege.ca/en/registrat... #MedEd #MedEdSky

Weak. 👏👏👏

Why Climate Change is Making Greenland Desirable to Trump Climate change may be opening up new economic and strategic opportunities in Greenland. Reality is more complicated.

Complicated is right. I'll keep talking to anyone who will listen. Mining Greenland isn't the best idea.

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#scicomm
#climate
#UVMresearch
#science
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#geosky
#ClimateHealth
#ClimateAction

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Make Canada Greater.

Canada, this is your moment. Really.

Here is what we need, right now:

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

Sign the petition: Canada must update travel guidance and create clear, accessible pathways for trans refugees Sign the petition: Sign the petition: Canada must update travel guidance and create clear, accessible pathways for trans refugees

Momentum Canada has a petition calling on the GoC to recognize that the US is no longer a "safe third country", to update travel guidance to the US and create a clear and accessible pathway for trans refugees. Please join me in signing.
#TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Smith says Alberta taxpayers need to be protected from coal lawsuits as moratorium lifted | Globalnews.ca Smith says the potential liability facing Alberta means the government needs to take the lawsuits seriously and taxpayers need to be protected.

“So in exchange for keeping their eggs off their face, they’re sacrificing our eastern slopes and our water,” Lund said on Tuesday.

“Whatever it costs in court is a tiny, tiny fraction of what it’s going to cost the taxpayers years from now to clean this mess up.”

Corb gets it. The UCP does not.

Side by side images from a Santiago street, showing the relatively few people accommodated in a street full of cleaned cars, and the number of people in a full Santiago bus in that same gridlock.

We know that mobility in cities is about space. More specifically, more trips in less space. We’ve seen lots of great images reinforcing that point. This one might be my favourite, from #Santiago, because it ALSO shows the inequality of having buses run in mixed traffic.

Dedicated bus-only lanes.

There’s no less efficient use of space than designing our cities around cars first. It’s also elitist, as it punishes those who can’t afford cars, making them nothing more than an afterthought.

I find this generational shift fascinating. While I personally find the CEO murder abhorrent, I can’t help but feel a bit of hope and optimism about what important stands Gen Z and younger will take on matters of equity, social justice and climate

This holiday season, Doug Ford is gifting his insider pals a luxury spa and sticking you with the bill: It'll cost $400 for every single household.

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Gambling with bird flu is asking for trouble — and another pandemic Canada Healthwatch | The most important health news, in one place. 🍁

"The history of major infectious disease outbreaks in Canada is one of missed opportunity after missed opportunity, betting against the house in nature’s casino."

Great one from @drhanwell.bsky.social @mark-ungrin.bsky.social et al #MedSky #IDSky #COVID #H5N1

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14 beams of light illuminate the sky above Mount Royal, lit one at a time as the names of the 14 victims are read out. For the first time this year, a 15th beam has been added in memory of all murdered women.
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Enough is enough.

It’s patently clear that the herd immunity strategy DOES NOT WORK.

It’s just making us all sicker and sicker…

It’s time to change course.

We need prevention instead of ‘let it rip’…

Big Pharma Is the Only Reason Anyone Still Dies From HIV We have the means to eradicate AIDS as a threat to human life. Greed is keeping this from happening.

#WorldAIDSDay2024

"We have the means to eradicate AIDS as a threat to human life. Greed is keeping this from happening."

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Are you a racoon? Dark circles under eyes Eats junk Small and chubby Stays up all night Cute but will fight

Yes.

Opinion | A Bird Flu Pandemic Would Be One of the Most Foreseeable Catastrophes in History It’s not too late for President Biden to give the U.S. a life-changing gift.

As H5N1 continues to spread among farm animals, we're playing a deadly game of Russian roulette with pandemic risk. H5N1 in pigs creates new risks of mixing among flu variants, which could lead to the emergence of an H5N1 strain capable of human to human transmission. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/o...

Opinion: O'Toole's GST holiday is the Christmas present our economy needs A GST cut would coax consumers back into stores, unlocking some of the personal savings accumulated during the pandemic

This was the national post (financial post) positive coverage of o’tooles proposal to cut gst for a holiday season in 2021.

But the same plan launched by liberals is some how “inflationary”.

National Post needs to be dismantled.

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Just 1 in 3 Canadians want a federal election According to a new study by Léger, just 1 in 3 Canadians say they want a federal election at this time.

Just 1 in 3 Canadians want a federal election cultmtl.com/2024/10/just... via @Crunchify

In unadjusted analyses, the mean weekly ratio between hospital-onset and community-onset infections increased from 2.9% prior to Omicron dominance to 7.6% (95% CI, 6.0%-9.1%) during Omicron dominance. After universal masking and testing ended, it increased to 15.5% (95% CI, 13.6%-17.4%), then fell to 8.0% (95% CI, 5.0%-11.0%) following resumption of masking among health care workers. Under the adjusted Poisson model (Figure), cessation of universal masking and testing was associated with a 25% increase in hospital-onset respiratory viral infections compared with the preceding Omicron-dominant period (rate ratio [RR], 1.25; 95% CI, 1.02-1.53), and resumption of masking among staff was associated with a 33% decrease in hospital-onset respiratory viral infections (RR, 0.67; 95% CI, 0.52-0.85).

This paper is interesting for a few reasons. It shows that mask mandates in healthcare protect patients from infections, and removing mask mandates in healthcare harms patients.

A facility without a mask mandate is making a *deliberate choice* known to harm patients.
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Everything Wrong with Canada’s Proposed Long COVID Recommendations

Everything Wrong with Canada’s Proposed Long COVID Recommendations

Canadian Health Sentinel
November 25, 2024
By Simon Spichak

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#COVID #CovidIsntOver #LongCovid #Canada

How a handful of Toronto businessmen got their way on bike lanes provincewide 'Non-partisan group' Balance on Bloor includes a former PC candidate, donors, and real estate industry players

The Ford government selected the Bloor bike lane for removal on behalf of well-connected businessmen from the world of real estate & private finance, with political & donor ties to the PC Party. #cdnpoli #peipoli
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Dr. Doug Eyolfson-
"While health care workers like myself were working in ICU desperately trying to save COVID victims,Justin Trudeau was procuring vaccines & enacting life-saving public-saving public health measures. Meanwhile Poilievre was more concerned with supporting insurrectionists."
#cdnpoli

All true. All contribute tax $ to private h/c insurance plans.

In addition we contribute trained personnel and resources from the public system to the private.

Splitting our system does not save us money - it costs us more.

The hallmarks of effective systems are universality and integration.

Fellow Ontario tax payers - please like and retweet if you would rather $3.2 Billion be invested in public services, like education, healthcare, ODSP, support for autism families, than be dolled out in one-time $200 pre-election bribes by Doug Ford. #onpoli #onted #cdpoli

Screenshot of the study published yesterday Annals of Neurology. Title: Neurologic Manifestations of Long COVID Disproportionately Affect Young and Middle-Age Adults. Interpretation: Younger and middle-age individuals are disproportionally affected by post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (Neuro-PASC) regardless of acute COVID-19 severity. Although older people more frequently have abnormal neurologic findings and comorbidities, younger and middle-age patients suffer from a higher burden of Neuro-PASC symptoms and cognitive dysfunction contributing to decreased QoL. Neuro-PASC principally affects adults in their prime, contributing to profound public health and socioeconomic impacts warranting dedicated resources for prevention, diagnosis and interventions. ANN NEUROL 2024

You may think that neurological symptoms in #LongCovid are for old people, but it is the opposite. Young adults (18–44 years) and middle-aged (45–64 years) with mild acute #COVID cases (non-hospitalized), represent 90% of the cases of #NeuroCovid. Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Evolutionary tree of SARS-CoV-2 variants in radial format, scaled to divergence (number of mutations). All Greek letters were assigned between May and November 2021, and none since "Omicron", which is enormously more diverse and divergent than any other named variant. Data from Nextstrain.org.

Graph showing mutations in SARS-CoV-2 versus time. The virus is not running out of mutational space (if anything, the most recent variant clade was above the trend line). Data from Nextstrain.org.

Graph showing mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein over time. The virus is not running out of mutational space. There was a very large jump in divergence with the arrival of BA.2.86, which evolved within a single host over a period of a year or so. Data from Nextstrain.org.

Graph showing the consistent increase in immune escape of SARS-CoV-2 variants (versus BA.2) over time. Data from Nextstrain.org.

State of SARS-CoV-2 evolution (Nov. 2024).