This week's data shows a 4.3% average positivity rate and 30 daily average cases statewide. Four new deaths, an average of 17 hospitalizations, and two patients in an ICU bed daily were reported.

Dashboard: health.hawaii.gov/covid19

I do love that some people in 1918 were exactly the same as people now though…

Misinformation has created an alternative world for some Americans: cnn.com/2024/04/28/pol… by Donie O'Sullivan

#Misinformation mongers trade in fear, rage, & chaos and leverage the desire for certainty & community. Alas, it works.

The walls of the echo chambers have become so deep I…

Canadian COVID Forecast: Apr 27-May 10, 2024

SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: none
HIGH: SK
MODERATE: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, ON, QC, PEI

About 1 in 75 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 Take aways from Helen Branswell 🇨🇦:
- Explain the iterative nature of science to the public
- Explain that it takes time to get answers
-Explain that guidance make change

So lucid.
I invite my economic brethern (and sistern, but they're mostly brethern) to read and comment.

#FutureOfWorkers #FutureOfEverything

56 companies are responsible for more than 50% of #PlasticPollution , with food and beverage companies being disproportionately large polluters. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

One of the most common presenting problems for psychiatric patients in the US is social isolation, which is then reformulated and recorded as depression, anxiety, or a personality disorder along with prescription of a med. What many need is community care systems, not psychiatry.

The #HealthForAll book tour continues this week. Here’s a pic from a wonderful weekend event when my friend Jody Wilson-Raybould (JWR), PC, OBC, KC 王州迪 came to interview me in Stouffville. We had a very warm welcome from the hometown crowd full of family and friends. They too are champions of #PrimaryCare for all.

The Lancet Digital Health JAMA Pediatrics npj Journals NEJM 11/n Bottom line:
1. massive data on devastating effects of COVID in pregnant women & their newborns,
2. massive data on the benefits of COVID vaccinations for pregnant women & newborns
3. massive data on the genetic basis of autism; no plausibility for vaccines causing autism

I’m so thrilled to receive this endorsement from people who work hard every day to build this province.

What a great visit. Thank you for meeting with me.

Feeling energized and inspired after Canadian Doctors for Medicare board retreat. Grateful to work alongside such powerful health advocates. Can't wait to see what we accomplish this year!

Folks are walking around strutting their stuff and Yale’s School of Public Health be like, “Yo, you got autoimmune disease.” The NIH Director be like, “Yo, you got viral persistence in your blood, brain & bone marrow.” Dr Deborah Birx be like, “Yo, you got an HIV-like disease.”

. World Health Organization (WHO) Webinar on POTS and post #COVID19 condition ( #LongCOVID ) on Wed April 24 & Fri Apr 26

Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) has emerged as a common presentation in post COVID-19 condition.

Join us to learn more. Register here: iecho.org/public/program…

How can we build a culture of learning at scale? There's an increasing focus on ‘learning networks’ (as well as, or instead of, learning within organisations). It's built on a sense we need to support learning to occur across scales & boundaries - from the individual to…

I spent a lot of time on this piece and everything I learned made me more mad.

The Ford government is giving even more money to long-term-care operators facing lawsuits for negligence.
Inside a twisted tale that will lead to disaster thestar.com/business/opini… via @torontostar

𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 [email protected] This commentary provides compelling arguments as to why…

academic.oup.com/cid/article/73…

Canadian COVID Forecast: Apr 13-26, 2024

SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: none
HIGH: none
MODERATE: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, ON, QC, PEI, SK

About 1 in 75 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

Canadian COVID Forecast Apr 13-26, 2024

BRITISH COLUMBIA

MODERATE (no change)

About 1 in every 71 people infected

Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:

-Infections ~5X higher
-Long COVID ~5X higher
-Hospitalizations ~6X higher
-Deaths ~2X higher

Thank you to all that made it out today in Lethbridge.

Everywhere we go, I meet folks so full of hope.