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Anneke

@littleann4ever.bsky.social

Parent. Writer. Lifter of rugs to expose truth while searching for glimmers of hope. Always rooting for the underdog. Oh & I love dogs-& crows! #LongCovid #LongCovidKids #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne B.C, 🇨🇦

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 9mo ago

With the US imploding into full-blown fascism, it's important not to take our eyes off the implosion of public health and infection control into more or less the same thing, with H5N1 waiting in the wings. The cover up of their very big mistake on COVID prevents adequate preparations for bird flu.

2022 interview with Dr Farrar, current Chief Scientist of the World Health Organization

DER SPIEGEL: But even the World Health Organization didn't take the spread via aerosols seriously and didn’t issue a warning about it until the autumn of 2020 …

Farrar: Yes, you are right, that was a very big mistake. We could have prepared better if bigger decisions would have been made around aerosols, around face masks, around the best treatment options, personal protective equipment for nurses, doctors, about the capacity for intensive care units. That would have saved an enormous number of lives.

Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I'll just leave this 2018 paper here: academic.oup.com/jid/article/...

Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The pending handover of Canadian public health guidance to GRADE pseudoscience, and possible elevation of Dr Henry to federal CMOH, highlight the fact that the best way to cover up a bunch of unnecessary deaths is to grab control of the institutions responsible for investigating and reporting them.

Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Country club insiders investigating their friends behind closed doors reflects our well-established tradition of burying major medical scandals. Like the Seven Oaks whitewash, that was so bad Justice Campbell added an extra section to the report of the SARS Commission while he was dying of cancer.

Seven Oaks also showed the bad side of Ontario’s response to SARS systemic problems that remain unfixed; the problems at the provincial laboratory; the two solitudes between infection control experts and worker safety experts; the exclusion of the Ministry of Labour from the centre of the investigation and the subsequent report; the occupation by the Ministry of Health of worker safety territory, where one would expect greater presence and collegial involvement by the Ministry of Labour; the failure to ensure effective consultation with safety officials from health worker unions; and the strong echo of the turf wars between the health system and the worker safety system that so bedevilled SARS. Seven Oaks demonstrated that many worker safety lessons of SARS have not been learned. The Ministry of Labour must be independent in setting workplace standards and in enforcing them. It must be an integral member of the response to any infectious disease outbreak. It must be directly involved in any post-event review of any infectious disease outbreak in which workers have gotten sick. Any post-event review of an infectious disease outbreak in which workers have gotten sick must include worker safety experts. The Seven Oaks outbreak also demonstrates the continuing reluctance of the health system to fully accept the importance of the precautionary principle in worker safety. Until this precautionary principle is fully recognized, mandated and enforced in our health care system, nurses and doctors and other health workers will continue to be at risk from new infections like SARS.
Seven Oaks also showed the bad side of Ontario’s response to SARS systemic problems that remain unfixed; the problems at the provincial laboratory; the two solitudes between infection control experts and worker safety experts; the exclusion of the Ministry of Labour from the centre of the investigation and the subsequent report; the occupation by the Ministry of Health of worker safety territory, …

Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 9mo ago

For anyone who can't figure out why so many infection control docs are still desperately trying to manufacture a narrative that COVID isn't airborne, N95s don't work, and nothing could have been done differently in 2020... ...imagine having to face the guilt for this in the mirror every day.

Zain Chagla
@zchagla
Me and many other medical professionals across Ontario signed individual letters to
@PublicHealthON
to step down on mandatory N95 masks and airborne precautions for #covid2019 cases and align with the rest of Canada, with routine cases managed with droplet/contact prec 1/2
7:15 PM · Feb 28, 2020

Zain Chagla
@zchagla
Feb 28, 2020
Although this seems counterintuitive - it helps protect our population and healthcare providers in multiple ways
1) N95 / airborne are limited resources and need to be saved for patients with aerosol generation
2) Patients can effectively be screened and managed out of hospital

Zain Chagla
@zchagla
Feb 28, 2020
As we focus more on the impending burden of disease in our community, we need to make rational evidence based choices and follow our Canadian colleagues as outlined by
@CPHO_Canada
@BogochIsaac
@HotaSusy
@pukears
@TorontoIDDoc

Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The negligent, outdated beliefs of medicine's management class (everywhere; from the UK inquiry here) contrasted with well-understood science from 👉1934👈. If you got sick after being told that COVID falls to the ground within 3 feet and N95/FFP2/FFP3 respirators aren't needed, 👉it was their fault.👈

The focus on handwashing over ventilation 12.32. As 2020 progressed, it was increasingly understood that airborne transmission of Covid-19 was a substantial risk and, by 23 July 2020, SAGE had endorsed the importance of good ventilation.

Anneke @littleann4ever.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Reminder: In B.C 🇨🇦, top public health officials all KNEW since SPRING 2020 about C19’s ability to cause devastating multi-system/multi-organ damage via spike proteins binding w/ACE2 receptors. They even wrote all about it as per this journal article excerpt cited in my 1st #LongCovid piece below:

Next, as for what they've known, the article's introduction states that "international estimates indicate that 10% to 20% of individuals recovering from COVID-19 experience long-term complications" and "given the multiplicity of organ systems affected and the susceptibility of individuals with substantial comorbidity to the infection, impacts are likely significant." The article's overview and objectives section expands on this even further, disclosing that
"based on the known physiology of the whole-body distribution of the angiotensin converting enzyme-2 receptor and the virus binding to the receptor, the possibility of multisystem involvement became apparent early in the pandemic, fostering an urgent need for interdisciplinary collaboration. The PC-ICCN emerged through "collaboration among over 60 clinical specialists, researchers, patients, and health administrators."

Anneke@littleann4ever.bsky.social · 2y ago

2/ As far back as Spring 2020, B.C was ahead of the pack when it came to access to real-time updated evidence about long Covid & PC multi-system damage via it’s recovery clinics & it’s one of a kind Post Covid-19 Interdisciplinary Clinical Care Network. My 1st piece: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Anneke @littleann4ever.bsky.social · last yr.

Speaking of hypocrisies - & in this case, mass-disabling, life-ending, negligent & criminal ones - yes, I think we’re now past the point where not describing the yrs long accumulation of behind scenes #LongCovid knowledge by PH/gov’t as criminal, IS criminal - here again are all my pieces on that:

Anneke@littleann4ever.bsky.social · 2y ago

🧵 1/ Since the carefully crafted walls of secrecy about all that was known about #LongCovid #PCC by public health & government officials are starting to crack, I thought I’d share, in order, the pieces I’ve written to date on this subject as it relates to British Columbia 🇨🇦… #CanadaSky #Covid-19

Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 2y ago

This report, published March 12th, 2020, constructed a "risk map" of the tissues and organs likely to be damaged by COVID infection, highlighting the absolute requirement to take a precautionary approach until the long-term implications of COVID were understood. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Abstract

It has been known that, the novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, which is considered similar to SARS-CoV, invades human cells via the receptor angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2). Moreover, lung cells that have ACE2 expression may be the main target cells during 2019-nCoV infection. However, some patients also exhibit non-respiratory symptoms, such as kidney failure, implying that 2019-nCoV could also invade other organs. To construct a risk map of different human organs, we analyzed the single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) datasets derived from major human physiological systems, including the respiratory, cardiovascular, digestive, and urinary systems. Through scRNA-seq data analyses, we identified the organs at risk, such as lung, heart, esophagus, kidney, bladder, and ileum, and located specific cell types (i.e., type II alveolar cells (AT2), myocardial cells, proximal tubule cells of the kidney, ileum and esophagus epithelial cells, and bladder urothelial cells), which are vulnerable to 2019-nCoV infection. Based on the findings, we constructed a risk map indicating the vulnerability of different organs to 2019-nCoV infection. This study may provide potential clues for further investigation of the pathogenesis and route of 2019-nCoV infection.

Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 9mo ago

If you're wondering how the medical community can ignore a disease that causes all of the damage laid out in the thread below, take note of the fact that continuing medical education processes are so outdated and ineffectual that many can't even recognize #longCOVID when they get it themselves.

Healthcare Workers With Long COVID Struggle to Find Support

Some healthcare workers fail to recognize the symptoms of long COVID in themselves, says one physician.

medscape.com

Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 2y ago

From populists on the right, but also from establishment figures desperate to bury their responsibility, there's an ongoing push to bury the harms of COVID. Long COVID alone costs 7M life-years (QALYs) and on the order of a trillion dollars a year in the OECD. www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issue...

1. While a precise estimate of long COVID prevalence is still emerging, current research suggests that up to 10-30% of people who contracted COVID-19 exhibit symptoms corresponding to long COVID in the weeks and months following acute infection. Across OECD countries at a minimum, this would represent upwards of 39 million people who had or are currently living with long COVID. Sustainable investment in long COVID research is crucial to inform health and social care resource allocation. As the evidence base grows, developing standardised measures of symptoms and functional impact to support a more precise definition that enables the disaggregation of levels of long COVID severity could be useful to better understand the condition, assess its impact, and to tailor care and support.
3. Long COVID can severely limit people’s ability to undertake basic activities of daily life and can dramatically hamper quality of life. More than 7 million quality-adjusted life years may be lost annually across OECD countries due to the condition. Studies from across a range of OECD countries suggest that one sixth to more than one-third of people may have persistent cognitive symptoms, often lasting more than 12 weeks, after a COVID-19 infection.
4. Even conservative estimates of long COVID prevalence would indicate that long COVID may be reducing the workforce by nearly 3 million workers across OECD countries, amounting to an economic cost of at least $141 billion USD from lost wages alone. Moreover, even among those who were able to return to the labour force, a significant proportion reported needing to reduce the number of hours they worked, compared to before their infection.

Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 12mo ago

...for everyone else: The people who made that very big mistake, minimized the reality of long-range aerosol transmission, and now refuse to even admit the fact that they made it, let alone apologize for the price we've paid... ...are grabbing for the power to tell *you* what "misinformation" is.

Controversy over airborne transmission of COVID-19 'a tempest in a teapot,' Dr. Bonnie Henry says | CBC News

Dr. Bonnie Henry says the controversy over airborne transmission of COVID-19 has been overblown, after hundreds of scientists signed a letter calling for the World Health Organization to revise its re...

cbc.ca

Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 12mo ago

If they cared to learn, they'd have the experts up on stage, and public health leaders would be in the audience, listening. The fact that the people who made the mistakes are the ones platformed, shielded from questions they can't answer about mistakes they can't justify, tells you everything.

Researcher who transformed COVID transmission science wins PM's prize

Lidia Morawska, an internationally renowned expert in air quality and its impact on human health, has won Australia's most coveted prize for scientific research.

abc.net.au

Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🧵This "public" Nov 5 forum highlights the hypocrisy of public health institutions. Topics include misinformation and public trust, and an attendee sent me this: questions for the panellists must be submitted in advance (so hard ones on e.g. PPE, aerosols etc can be censored). ubccdc.med.ubc.ca

Program – Global Health Security Forum

Time

Agenda

12:00 PM – 12:30 PM

Registration and Lunch

12:30 PM – 01:00 PM

Opening Remarks from Siem Te Ta-in (Coast Salish Knowledge Keeper)
Opening Remarks by BCCDC

01:00 PM – 1:45 PM

Keynote Presentation
Rethinking Global Health Security in the Post-COVID Era — Are we better prepared

Maria D. Van Kerkhove, Director a.i., Epidemic and Pandemic Management, Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Programme, World Health Organization

01:45 PM – 4:00 PM

Presentations (20 minutes each)

1:45 PM – 2:05 PM

Indigenous health and rights at the forefront of health security

Shannon Waters, Deputy Provincial Health Officer, British Columbia, Canada

2:06 PM – 2:26 PM

Public trust and health security

Heidi J Larson, Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK

2:26 PM – 2:46 PM

Misinformation and tackling misinformation—what is needed at the global scale

Tara Kirk Sell, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Johns Hopkins University, USA

2:47 PM – 3:07 PM

Data, equity and intelligence: Building inclusive surveillance systems

Naveed Janjua, Director, UBC Centre for Disease Control, University of British Columbia, Canada

3:08 PM – 3:28PM

Are we ready to tackle another pandemic: vaccine from development and to uptake?

Natasha Crowcroft, Vice President, Infectious Diseases and Vaccination Programs, Public Health Agency of Canada, Canada

3:29 PM – 3:49 PM

One Health approach to tackle emerging threats

Hung Nguyen-Viet, Regional Director Asia, International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Break and Networking

4:30 PM – 5:50 PM

Panel Discussion
Where do we go from here? Building a resilient global health future

Panelists:
Maria D. Van Kerkhove, Director a.i., Epidemic and Pandemic Management, Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Programme, World Health Organization
Natasha Crowcroft, Vice President, I…

Program and Speakers

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Naveed Zafar Janjua, MBBS, MSc, DrPH

Director, University of British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (UBCCDC)

Clinical Professor, School of Population and Public Health

University of British Columbia

Emily Lowan (she/her)@emilylowan.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We (tried to) ask Billionares in their Vancouver mansions - what’s an oligarch? 🤔💰 #billionares #oligarchs #fighttheoligarchs #wealthtax #bcgreens fighttheoligarchs.ca

Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (health break).@ratnegative.bsky.social · 11mo ago

If the province weren't so invested in boosting productivity by normalizing COVID-19, they'd see that more can be gained by not sickening entire workplaces. Promote regular testing & airborne precautions, provide more job-protected leave days so people return to work RAT-. 32/?

Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (health break).@ratnegative.bsky.social · 11mo ago

When the stakes of going without COVID-19 testing are so high, why should it be singled out for payment? What little the province can save on RATs, we will pay in exponents to expedite waitlists & provide for those who are now permanently disabled from repeated infections. 30/?

Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (health break).@ratnegative.bsky.social · 11mo ago

2: "Provincially supplied kits do not expire until 2026". Will SARS-CoV-2 have ceased to exist by then? Doubtful. What about the people who had no idea that the distribution program had ended? Stocks have dried up & they've been left with no way to replenish their supply. 20/?

Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (health break).@ratnegative.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thread in essay format + unedited slides: docs.google.com/document/d/1... I will begin with a brief timeline of how the BCCDC has worsened COVID-19 related programs & why they matter: 4/16: The amount and timeliness of SARS-CoV-2 sample data uploaded to GISAID deteriorated. 3/?

Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (health break).@ratnegative.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This is the second iteration of a thread I posted on November 6. It doesn’t contain a great deal of new information, but I have responded to recent changes that the BCCDC made to the wastewater dashboard. 2/?

Anneke @littleann4ever.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Pls read this entire thread &/or this stellar google doc piece in the post below. It provides a crucial timeline summary about the purposeful erosion of safeguards - namely RATs & wastewater surveillance - & info to help keep our population safe. Giving #Covid19 & #LongCovid full reign.

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Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (health break).@ratnegative.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I have been trying to raise awareness about the recent cuts to pandemic preparedness by provincial institutions in BC for the past 1½ months. Most of the cuts were not announced to the public beforehand and media coverage has been scant. 1/?

Emily Lowan (she/her)@emilylowan.bsky.social · 12mo ago

You’re our blueprint, Mayor Mamdani. The 1% have done everything in their power to starve us of hope. To rob us of a dignified life. But we are making hope normal again. We are building a big, beautiful movement to reclaim BC’s economy for the 99%. Let’s do this thing⚡️ #bcpoli bcgreens.ca/join/

Anneke @littleann4ever.bsky.social · 12mo ago

As per the photo portion below, I’ve updated my timeline summary to include Dr. Henry’s Sept 28th, 2022 press conference where she said a high rate of #Covid19 infection in kids does not translate to long term consequences. And that she would have known the opposite was true. #bcpoli

“Please note that this multitude of long COVID information via the OCSO was being received by Skowronski while she and her co-authors, including Dr. Henry, were conducting their cross-sectional SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence study. Their study's sero-surveys began in March 2020 and ended in August 2022, at which time their research concluded that the estimated infection-induced cases in B.C's children and youth had culminated to reach ~80%. Yet, between July 2021 and July 2022, Skowronski had been receiving reports that included evidence of long term symptoms in children and youth. These pediatric fact summaries and studies revealed a whole host of harms in this population group, including heart, lung and liver implications, cognitive impairment and fatigue.

Yet were families informed about the pediatric long COVID evidence, were stronger mask mandates reinstated or school air quality upgrades prioritized?

No, quite the contrary. During a September 28th, 2022 press conference, while presenting various graphs and charts, and the high COVID-19 infection rate in children, as inevitable, Dr. Henry stated, "It also shows us that children... particularly since Omicron has come on the scene, now have a very high rate of evidence of infection. But what that has not translated to is hospitalizations, severe illness or long-term consequences in children, which is the good news." (22:50 min mark).

Proof that there was never any intention to reveal the truth about what was known behind closed doors or to protect the population from a disabling virus. Even and especially our children.

Anneke@littleann4ever.bsky.social · 2y ago

4/ A complete timeline of the behind scenes knowledge via B.C’s PC-ICCN & F.O.I.s, as per above, as well as a breadth of long Covid/PCC facts & recipient information gleaned from Protect our Province New Brunswick’s incredible R.T.I work. My third piece: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Anneke @littleann4ever.bsky.social · 2y ago

5/ And finally, this. A condensed version of the above piece. My Protect our Province B.C blog contribution: protectbc.ca/public-healt...

A BC Public Health Scandal: Long Covid, Failure to Warn - Protect Our Province B.C.

B.C.’s Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, her medical health officers, Minister of Health Adrian Dix, and his health ministry have never warned you about post Covid health impacts beyond an ...

protectbc.ca

Anneke @littleann4ever.bsky.social · 2y ago

Part 3-Long Covid Timeline Summary for BC

Long Covid Timeline Summary - All that was known and not shared in B.C. “The government and the office of Public Health claim legitimacy and authority through prop...

docs.google.com

Anneke @littleann4ever.bsky.social · 2y ago

3/ B.C F.O.I documents reveal indisputable proof that our health ministry & senior PH officials have all known about long Covid risks as far back as April 2020. This 2nd piece also compares & contrasts timeline of public health messaging & legislature reveals…& more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Part 2 - What They Knew When about long COVID in BC

B.C.’s long COVID cover-up: what they knew and when they knew it Correspondence between the Ministry of Health and the Provincial Health Services Authority has unveiled more indisputable long COVID k...

docs.google.com

Anneke @littleann4ever.bsky.social · 2y ago

Part 1 - *What They Knew When* about long COVID in BC

In Plain Sight - what they knew and when they knew it “It is incredible the learnings and support that we are providing British Columbians that are struggling with the long term effects of Covid. Pl...

docs.google.com

Anneke @littleann4ever.bsky.social · 2y ago

Julie Lam @msjulieslam.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Working on the campaign on the flight home, thinking about all the conversations I had with Londoners in this trip. People don’t understand what #LongCovid is - that’s what I learned from meeting people and sharing what I know with them. The root cause of Long Covid is Covid.

Julie, wearing a flomask, holding a CO2 monitor and it shows that the CO2 level on the flight is 1151ppm.

Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · last yr.

The pandemic has revealed a disturbing number of people in healthcare (especially leadership) are there just because they were good at memorizing stuff, rather than because of any real depth of understanding of health (or empathy for patients).