Important Q, tru'dat
Despite reasonable evidence that serious infections were transmitted by #taintedblood , those responsible in 🇨🇦 did not take essential preventive measures until causation was certain.
The result?
'A national public health disaster.'
cmaj.ca/content/177/11…

This 🧵 is a living nightmare.

Tommy warned us

#Britain ’s Infamous Professor Arthur Bloom along with his policy of knowingly injecting children with #taintedblood came to #Australia in the 1980s.

1400 #Haemophiliacs were killed.

After getting no #help & answers from our nations PM Anthony Albanese we will file criminal complaints

Dr. Nancy Olivieri Diane Marie Stan Cho I remember when my Grandma went into LTC initially. She had lived her entire life in the Paris area. 3 of her 5 kids, a dozen grandkids and all her friends there. She got shipped off to Thunder Bay. It was a fight to get her back to Paris and into the LTC she had volunteered in.

This is exactly right.

And disgusting.

Well, here's a shocker.
#Pharma was willing to sell 🇺🇸 blood products infected with #hepatitis .
🇬🇧 knowingly bought them, b/c they were cheaper.
Then followed (as in 🇦🇺 and 🇨🇦): 'Criminal cover-up on an industrial scale'
theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…
#TaintedBlood #ContaminatedBlood

Very normal behavior by Big Pharma.

Very normal behavior by journalists covering pharma at the NY Times to ignore this behavior by Big Pharma.

On 60 Minutes, Lesley Stahl asked Dr David Nathan:
'What about that contract Dr. Olivieri signed with #Pharma ?'
David: 'I don’t care if she'd signed the Gettysburg address.'
'Because you don’t take chances with human lives.'
🙏Amar Jesani Sandhya Srinivasan 
ijme.in/articles/nancy…

Here's @BillMaher portraying Canada spending 13% of GDP on health care as a huge exorbitant expenditure...apparently unaware that the U.S. spends nearly 18% of its GDP on health care.

commonwealthfund.org/publications/i…

someone w 'unbearable pain' can hardly exercise 'agency'. Pain can be addressed 99.9% cases. Offering to end their life in this situation = paradigm cases undue influence or coercion. And remarkable how one can ignore injustice of terrible prioritization w what is made available

#CdnMediaColludes to have you believe better healthcare isn't possible.

I don't normally do this, but I'm angry, so. Thread of questions I, a journo with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy (not the same thing as, but similar to, quadriplegic paralysis) would ask if I were reporting this. Anyone who is reporting or investigating, feel free to use.

A cartoon by Elisabeth McNair, from 2019. #NewYorkerCartoons

Don't forget, difficult as it is to process I know, that government and Pharma made a conscious decision to distribute Hepatitis-tainted Factor 8 blood products.

Via Factor 8

Time is running out to halt outright famine in #Gaza .

Children are dying of hunger and thirst. 1 in 3 children below the age of two is acutely malnourished.

We need:
🔴 Full access for aid organizations to reach the entire civilian population
🔴 A humanitarian ceasefire

Unicef asking that its aid trucks not be hit with live ammunition again.

This 🧵 is 🔥🔥🔥
'Obviously we should allow #Pharma to shape our healthcare policy, fix prices and maintain their stranglehold on lobbying, research/development and advertising expenditures in media -- because they are clearly trustworthy' 🎯🙏Champagne Joshi

theconversation.com/we-dont-know-w…
'We don’t know whether most medical treatments work, and we know even less about whether they cause harm – new study'

It was a partnership between pharma, the industry, patient organizations funded by pharma, and the FDA!

Biggest concern is active drugs w uncertain safety given to people with 10+ yrs of life. Neurotox for a decade will be horrible.
youtu.be/-42d0z9faao