RT for @MoriartyLab:

The Apr 2-8 Canadian COVID Forecast and associated data are now live.

SEVERE: CAN, BC, NB, ON, SK
VERY HIGH: NL, NS, PEI
ELEVATED: AB, MB, QC, North

About 1 in 24 people in Canada is CURRENTLY infected.

Full weekly report: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index

#covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #BringBackMasks #N95sSaveLives
#BreakTheChain
#MaskUp #ONHealth #HealthCanada #NotMild #COVIDAwarenessWeek #LongCOVID

RT @cpso_ca
CPSO Removes Barriers for Internationally Educated Physicians. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3KdhMMg

#ONHealth #OntarioDoctors

"The Ford government is playing with people’s lives in cutting a small program with a huge impact. No one should be forced to choose between accessing health care and paying the rent."

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2023/03/28/fords-health-care-cuts-risk-lives-of-societys-most-vulnerable.html

#onhealth #onpoli

What is up-selling & what do patients need to know?

I spoke with CBC's The National to break it down.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2187067459940

#cdnhealth #cdnpoli #onhealth #onpoli

You can help stop these health care cuts for some of the most marginalized residents of Ontario, here:

https://sites.google.com/view/healthcare4allcoalition/keep-uninsured-people-covered?authuser=0

This **Thursday March 30th**, 11am, there will also be emergency rally at Queen’s Park, Toronto.

If you're in a position to support, please consider signing the petition, and/or attending the rally.

#cdnhealth #cdnpoli #onhealth #onpoli

More here, with some welcome leadership via the OMA.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2023/03/25/ontario-doctors-blast-province-for-ending-health-care-for-uninsured-residents.html

#cdnhealth #cdnpoli #onhealth #onpoli

The Ontario government dropped this bombshell in the dying hours of last Friday. Very concerning.

#cdnhealth #cdnpoli #onhealth #onpoli

@deonandan I've had to wait over 7 weeks for a doctor's appointment for a non-urgent issue. How many people have been waiting for months for an appointment that they need that they suddenly aren't going to be able to afford?
For how little this program would cost to continue, and how inhumane it is to stop this program with a week's notice and no replacement, how is this even allowed to happen? How can #OnHealth be so bad?

@ChristyCeeCK @ravensview

Adding a middle man never saves money.

#onpoli #onhealth

RT @TiernanMurphy8: @maritstiles is correct, privatized healthcare is inflationary as the extra layer of profit is added. Medicare for all in the US would be a significantly deflationary event.
#onhealth #onpoli https://t.co/SmQemiiVz2

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hee got mee two serch up on googler to fined owt bout rabid wholes: it iz cawled a rabid worn!
eye all waze thot thay worn fer!
bye fur now, dairy
mikee
#ONpoli
#ONHealth
#TVAds
:dougcoffee:

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Awl eye no iz eester is sew soon dat wee doughnt wont to bawther the rabit
buy fer now, dairy
mikee
#onpoli
#ONHealth :dougcoffee:

Pardon the Politics post, but how are Ford and his cronies bragging about hiring nurses and doctors yet still not alleviating health care wait times and improving infrastructure?

They keep talking about spending money yet services haven't improved. Have they?

#onpoli #onhealth #healthcare #ontario

@KimDerstine Will be interesting to see how this translates into provincial recommendations. Currently in ON you can get another booster a min. of 84 days from the previous dose. But ON doesn't _always_ follow NACI... to the letter #covid #CovidIsNotOver #ONPoli #ONHealth

Ford has ended hallway healthcare! #onpoli #onhealth

@thetyee Interesting - it seems like you can still get your >5th booster here in ON - I wonder for how much longer...
#OnPoli #ONHealth #CovidIsNotOver

The government won't explain how getting investors involved will help. Also they under-spent by billions in healthcare last year. They played a critical role in creating this backlog. https://youtu.be/d0dQq5VUQ9s?t=749 #onpoli #onhealth

A terrible irony that nurse practitioners, introduced to enhance equity & access, are now being used this way.

#onhealth #onpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-health-care-pay-optional-fee-nurse-practitioners-1.6755305

"As the head of a department of surgery in a public hospital, I worry about the corrosive effects of diverting resources to a private delivery sector."

#onpoli #onhealth #BetterMedicare

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2023/02/21/the-truth-and-the-costs-behind-public-payment-for-private-surgeries.html

@ChristyCeeCK The other thing that's weird is no more discussion of additional boosters for older people. My parents and in-laws last got boosted in September. With another wave being predicted (see @MoriartyLab) I am getting concerned. Ontario does allow boosters every 3 months- still working on convincing them...
#covid #OnHealth