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Aug 13 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
21 days until #BackToSchool2024 & @TOPublicHealth has a new Strategic Plan


“Effectively communicate w/ the public about how they can protect their health.”
To
“Strengthen health protection, disease prevention & emergency preparedness.”

Priority #1

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& #WeAllShareIndoorAir

A #BackToSchool campaign on:
1)Airborne illness prevention
2)#LongCovid risks of re/infection



is critical to fulfil Priority #1

toronto.ca/community-peop…
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Aug 3 • 90 tweets • 59 min read
How many studies,
articles, PH recs,
& orgs & families speaking up on #SARSCoV2 harms to children like #LongCovidKids will it take to make #UnsafeSchools & #UnsafeDaycares safe with #CleanAirNow solutions?

How many?
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#WeAllShareIndoorAir
#DutyOfCare Image 1.False divisions & dubious equivalencies
Children’s rights during the COVID-19 pandemic
H/T @pjavidan
Jun 2024





How many will it take to make #UnsafeSchools safe?
#WeAllShareIndoorAir
#DutyOfCare
#CleanAirNow
#StongerTogether
manchesterhive.com/display/978152…

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Mar 10 • 12 tweets • 8 min read
“If it was so bad, they would be telling us”

“They have, it’s in the fine print.”

“They would have told us harder”

“They’ve never stopped recommending protections”

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H/T @o_bel_ @FrankenTan


🇨🇦edition, Federal, Provincial, Municipal…

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#LongCovid “If it was so bad, they would be telling us”

“They have, it’s in the fine print”

🇨🇦Federal:Govt of🇨🇦 Sept 2021

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#LongCovid
#LongCovidKids
#TreatLongCovid
#PreventLongCovid
#WeAllShareIndoorAir
#ReadTheFinePrint
Nov 17, 2023 • 28 tweets • 5 min read
“Scottish Children’s Futures Are At Risk as Long Covid Takes Hold”

17/11/23

H/T @Dakota_150 @HelenMMGoss



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#LongCovidKids
#COVIDisAirborne
#CovidIsNotOver
#WeAllShareIndoorAir “Helen Goss, COO and Scotland Lead of Charity Long Covid Kids confirms the healthcare situation for children and young people with Long Covid is hugely frustrating…”
Nov 7, 2023 • 182 tweets • 30 min read
SCOTTISH COVID-19 INQUIRY @covidinquirysco

Written+Oral testimony

#LongCovidKids Scotland @LCKScotland

COO @HelenMMGoss

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#CovidIsAirborne
#CovidIsNotOver
#WeAllShareIndoorAir
#WearARespirator
#CleanAir
#LongCovid
#LongCovidKids
#TreatLongCovid
#PreventLongCovid TESTIMONY: NOV 3 2023
AFTERNOON SESSION

Written Testimony #LongCovidKids :



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covid19inquiry.scot/sites/default/…
Sep 7, 2023 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
Dr Kyeremanteng a “distinguished speaker” on #LongCovid at Oct conference

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@Alberta_Pain did you know…

He has spoken on #C19 (which causes #LongCovid) infection prevention in kids like this, a🧵

@Alberta_Pain Is this an ethical/appropriate choice? painab.ca/annualconferen…
Image Dr Kyeremanteng a “distinguished speaker” on #LongCovid at @Alberta_Pain Oct conference



#LongCovid results from #C19 infection

@Alberta_Pain Is this an ethical/appropriate #LongCovid speaker choice?



#LongCovidKidspainab.ca/annualconferen…
Aug 21, 2023 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
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Most families don’t yet understand #LongCovidKids risks of #C19 infection due to a lack of info combined with a lot of uncorrected misinfo

From Long Covid Families, a US nonprofit:



It’s tragic

#LongCovidKids Here’s a non-exhaustive list of the uncorrected misinfo landscape as far as #C19 & kids are concerned from a perinatal epidemiologist

H/T @olga_basso

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#LongCovidKids
Feb 25, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
“Wastewater study finds masks prevent COVID-19 in schools

Feb 22/2023”

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H/T @ESL_fairy

healio.com/news/primary-c… “A study that used wastewater signals to identify cases of COVID-19 found that even a small increase in the proportion of people wearing masks at elementary schools in one California county significantly reduced the chance of a case.”
Feb 12, 2023 • 106 tweets • 34 min read
“COVID-19 and Airborne Transmission: Science Rejected, Lives Lost. Can Society Do Better?”

From Clinical Infectious Diseases

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watermark.silverchair.com/ciad068.pdf?to…

H/T @DFisman “This is an account that should be heard of an important struggle: the struggle of a large group of experts who came together at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic to warn the world about the risk of airborne transmission and the consequences of ignoring it.”
Feb 2, 2023 • 41 tweets • 12 min read
“Rethinking COVID hegemony” 1/2/2023

croakey.org/rethinking-cov…

H/T @sameo416

“Earlier this year, writing for The Canberra Times, I proposed the idea of “COVID Hegemony” to explain the transformation of our pandemic outlook… …Hegemony, in short, refers to the dominance maintained by those in power to ensure that their preferred worldview is seen as natural, inevitable & beneficial to all, largely by manufacturing the consent of the people.”
Jan 29, 2023 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
“Shielding under endemic SARS-CoV-2 conditions is easier said than done: a model-based analysis”

medrxiv.org/content/10.110… “As the #C19 pandemic continues unabated, many governments & PH bodies worldwide have ceased to implement concerted measures for limiting viral spread, placing the onus instead on the individual…
Jan 27, 2023 • 40 tweets • 28 min read
“Long COVID Has Never Been Taken Seriously. Here’s Where It Left Us

I’m 28 and one of many disabled from the pandemic. We need a public health plan for this.”

H/T @TheTyee

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“Before the pandemic, I was a law student who spent my weekdays studying for long hours and my weekends hiking or cycling. When I developed COVID-19 symptoms in late March 2020, my case was mild….”
Dec 23, 2022 • 40 tweets • 11 min read
“Ten COVID Facts Health Officials Dangerously Downplay

We should be rallied to defend ourselves and our kids. Our leaders offer timid silence.”

21/12/2022

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thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/…

H/T @TheTyee “As the pandemic evolves, the failure of current public health policies now shines clearer than a midnight star. The assumption that hybrid immunity — vaccines combined with infections — would end COVID’s relentless evolution has fed the pandemic, not starved it”
Dec 22, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
“FDA approves new monoclonal antibody for hospitalized COVID-19 patients” 12/21/22

thehill.com/policy/healthc… “The drug, called Actemra, was originally approved in 2010 to treat adult patients with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. The company says that is the first FDA-approved monoclonal antibody intended to treat patients with severe cases of COVID-19.”
Dec 10, 2022 • 8 tweets • 8 min read
“Number of sick children transferred to open Ontario hospital beds hit high in November”

Dec 9, 2022

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globalnews.ca/news/9333658/o… “Ornge is now looking to increase flight certificates to be able to fly into the United States, if required, as the province potentially leans on existing relationships with hospitals in border states to help manage the load.”
Dec 9, 2022 • 16 tweets • 19 min read
#FreeTheN95s
#BringBackMasks
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The unmitigated airborne spread of airborne viruses like COVID-19, RSV, & influenza is causing children to get ill en masse

ON PICUs are preventably crashing with screaming children gasping for air

This is a preventable paediatric emergency A 2 year old toddler died tragically in an Ajax hospital

No space in Children’s hospital child for a child rescued from a fire

3-4 kids a day resuscitated

Red Cross at CHEO

A preventable paediatric emergency

More care with kids, not less

#FreeTheN95s
#BringBackMasks
Dec 8, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
“Many of these children unfortunately have had COVID infections over the past number of months, and there is increasing evidence that COVID has caused a dysregulation of our immune systems making us even more susceptible to these other viruses…

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…I think it’s very important to get 💉… but also it’s very important to keep these kids protected with other measures like masking… I think we have to use all of the layers of protection that we have to help our children during this very difficult time.”
Dec 8, 2022 • 47 tweets • 27 min read
“Study: Bacterial pneumonia was main killer in 1918 flu pandemic
Robert Roos August 22, 2008”

cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-vacc…

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H/T @CovidCanada1 “It was secondary bacterial pneumonia—not the influenza virus by itself—that killed most of the millions who perished in the 1918 flu pandemic…
Nov 21, 2022 • 35 tweets • 14 min read
“Is COVID-19 Dysregulating Our Immune Systems? The Agenda, 14/11/22”



29:00 H/T @FurnessColin

“There is one logical thing to point out here. A virus has 2 strategies, broadly speaking, in terms of being successful… … & I think we can agree that #C19 is a pretty successful virus. It can mutate to change its appearance to avoid the immune system and we know that #C19 does that so does flu, every successful virus seems to be able to do that, or most…
Nov 10, 2022 • 13 tweets • 10 min read
Dr. Kwadwo Kyerenmenteng

CHEO Board of Directors, Elected Directors

cheo.on.ca/en/about-us/bo… ImageImage Dr. Kwadwo Kyerenmenteng

Urgency Of Normal team

urgencyofnormal.com/our-team

About the Urgency of Normal

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Nov 8, 2022 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
“Kids are suffering from COVID in ways we never expected” Nov 7, 2022

archive.ph/vQSYE

H/T @picardonhealth @FurnessColin “There are those arguing that this spike is due to an “immunity deficit”–that children are getting sick now b/c they were deprived of infections during lockdowns & school closings…