Thomas Piggott MD PhD
@twpiggott.bsky.social
Medical Officer of Health & CEO @phlakelands.bsky.social researcher @hei_mcmaster | dad, doctor, dreamer
Canadian workers are speaking out against the possibility that their retirement savings could fund the #LNGCanada liquefied natural gas megaproject. While the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has repeatedly signalled interest in the oil and gas sector.
Pension Beneficiaries Fear Funds Will Pour Retirement Savings Into LNG
As Ottawa looks to pension funds to finance major energy projects and LNG Canada moves to double production in Kitimat, beneficiaries warn their retirement savings could become their “biggest contribu...
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Ebola has a running head start. By the time the outbreak in DRC was detected, there were already many suspected cases and deaths. We’ve seen if you reach an Ebola outbreak in days, you can stop it in weeks. Months of delay? It will take much longer. That’s why countries need to surge support now.
Doctor says this Ebola outbreak is different because “we’re so far behind”
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Depressing Confession of a daily cyclist This month is the Shifting Gears @ptbogreenup campaign to increase active transit. If we want more people to walk, cycle etc. let's make sure it's safer for them to do so. What are your thoughts, comment below 👇
Thank you for the interview @twpiggott.bsky.social. This is the third story in our @kawarthanow.bsky.social series on the CTS closure in Peterborough. The other stories are linked inside this recent story and interview with Dr. Piggott.
kawarthaNOW@kawarthanow.bsky.social · 2mo ago'It's not a hypothetical': Medical officer of health says #Ptbo CTS closure will drive more overdoses to ER. Local public health and harm reduction experts warn the loss of the supervised consumption site will ripple across the healthcare system. kawarthanow.com/2026/05/23/i...
The people I met, in particular healthcare workers, when I was in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩 in 2018 were some of the most caring and resilient I’ve ever had the chance to know.
“'This is the most striking example so far of how much the dissolution of USAID and destruction of CDC’s role around the world is threatening our national security,' said Stephanie Psaki, who was U.S. coordinator for global health security" under Biden. 🧵1/4 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
Why this Ebola outbreak will be so difficult to contain
With the death toll rising sharply, the head of the World Heath Organization said he was
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The t-shirt says it all. Do we aspire to health for all or health for some in Ontario and Canada? The closure of the CTS in Peterborough is resulting in more outside use of drugs and healthcare strain here my story from my run last night.
Canada’s MOU agreement with Alberta puts the country’s commitment to net zero emissions by 2050 firmly out of reach. Read our full statement from @rjcsmith.bsky.social ⬇️ climateinstitute.ca/news/mou-wit...
MOU with Alberta puts Canada’s commitment to net zero emissions by 2050 firmly out of reach - Canadian Climate Institute
The MOU agreement’s unreasonable compromises on industrial carbon markets and clean electricity regulations, and the implications for weakening policies in other provinces, will undermine emissions re...
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Out Now 🙌 : GRADE Guidance 46 Integrating Planetary 🌍 Health in Health Guidelines www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... Proud to have worked with this great group of researchers from across the world, passionate about ensuring human health and planetary health go hand in hand.
The CDC is really is no where to be found because of its deliberate destruction. You CDC cruise ship inspectors were laid off in April 2025. No surprise it has been crickets from HHS and CDC leadership on the situation with the Hanta virus cruise ship situation. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...
CDC's cruise ship inspectors laid off amid bad year for outbreaks
The steep cuts to the cruise ship inspection team baffled officials in the program, which is not paid for by taxpayer dollars.
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Part 1: A public health perspective on…homelessness.
👉 A public health perspective on… I’m going to start a short series addressing complex heath issues and sharing a public health perspective. What public health topics do you think I should cover? Instagram.com/twpiggott Comment below. #health #publichealth #publichealthmatters
Happy #EarthDay! Mother Earth’s vital signs are flashing red. Let’s do something about that and reground decisions we make in health, human, animals, plants/fungi and the planet’s!
Thanks ON Morning CBC for having me on this morning to talk about public health response to the drug poisoning crisis and closure of the CTS.
COVID vaccines are tied to less hospital care, long COVID, and economic burden. A large study in Germany shows lower hospitalization, all-cause death rates, and health care costs in vaccinated people. Read more: ow.ly/XG0E50YMTht
I just finished my last quarterly meeting with staff at the soon to be closed Consumption and Treatment Site. This is a loss for our community, that, come summer, will be seen in our streets, ambulances, emerges and in deaths of people using drugs.
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School Difficulties and Long COVID in Children and Adolescents
Pediatric Long COVID (LC) is an infection-associated chronic condition following SARS-CoV-2 infection. While research has begun to elucidate clinical phenotypes, functional impacts are not well descri...
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Your friendly reminder: the nearly evidence-less ‘wellness industry’ is worth $7 trillion per year, 4X the pharmaceutical industry. I think it is great to be critical about pharmaceuticals, while maintaining sanity and understanding that meds have a key place in treatment and secondary prevention.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 4mo agoRFK Jr. vows to overhaul preventative medicine
COVID-19 drove recent leap in preventable respiratory hospitalizations, report says www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
COVID-19 drove recent leap in preventable respiratory hospitalizations, report says
Hospital admission rates for such diseases more than doubled in 2024-2025 compared with prepandemic levels
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Are people more outraged by Trump AI-playing Jesus than the “a whole civilization will die” threat?
We often talk about the success introducing vaccinations had a generation ago, with diseases that we now no longer see. Here’s an exciting success story of a new vaccine that has dramatically reduced hospitalization from RSV in children in Ontario. #vaccines #science #health #publichealth
We are in Port Hope, Northumberland County this evening for the @phlakelands Lakelands Public Health Townhall! Don’t miss your chance to learn about and chat public health.
Saving lives and freeing up hospital capacity.
We often talk about the success introducing vaccinations had a generation ago, with diseases that we now no longer see. Here’s an exciting success story of a new vaccine that has dramatically reduced hospitalization from RSV in children in Ontario. #vaccines #science #health #publichealth
Haliburton County! It’s a great day for 🦆 and also to come out and chat public health at the Lakelands Public Health Town Hall. 4pm today at the Minden Community Centre.
Forced and coerced sterilization of Indigenous women has a long history in Canada — and it hasn’t ended. On an upcoming (MIS)Treated, @namshine.bsky.social speaks with Harmony Redsky of The Survivors Circle for Reproductive Justice about Bill S‑228. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...
I may not be a mathematician but these headlines are telling. 🏠
