Reposted by AllardAndré Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Students aren’t recovering from #COVID19. Test scores are getting worse. New U.S. data on student math and reading achievement details the long and damaging road back from the pandemic, by @laurameckler.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/education/20... via @postopinions.bsky.social #LongCOVIDwashingtonpost.comStudents aren’t recovering from covid. Test scores are getting worse.Takeaways from new federal data on student math and reading achievement detail the long and damaging road back from the pandemic. 106736
Reposted by AllardCharlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 29/01/2025This is a no-brainer: a Granny who wants to volunteer at a school lunch program has to get a security clearance. And yet Pierre Poilievre who lives in a 19-room mansion funded by the taxpayer refuses or can't get a security clearance. Something stinks here. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...thestar.comPierre Poilievre will no longer receive security briefing from top spy agencyThe Conservative leader has argued that he won't be muzzled by secrecy constraints that accompany security clearances. 1591990700
Reposted by AllardPH 🕊️🌱😷 @ph-ph-ph.bsky.social · 23/01/2025SARS-CoV 🧠🦠 ‘The research identified 5 localized functional connectivity hubs with significant differences.. right intracalcarine cortex right lingual gyrus left frontal orbital cortex left hippocampus & left amygdala, which is vital for cognitive functions’ www.news-medical.net/news/2024100...news-medical.netMild COVID-19 disrupts brain connectivity and reduces memory function in adolescents and young adultsStudy reveals localized brain changes in adolescents and young adults post-COVID, including reduced hippocampal volume and disrupted connectivity, correlating with impaired working memory. These findi... 03016
Reposted by AllardDavid Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025In light of the Alberta report I am re-upping our paper on the impact of mixing between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals in the context of covid-19. We had to deal with a real full court press of individuals trying to get the journal to take this down. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...journals.plos.orgImpact of immune evasion, waning and boosting on dynamics of population mixing between a vaccinated majority and unvaccinated minorityBackground We previously demonstrated that when vaccines prevent infection, the dynamics of mixing between vaccinated and unvaccinated sub-populations is such that use of imperfect vaccines markedly d... 25720
Allard @allards.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Very interesting model. I wonder how much covid, sick days, Long COVID, hospitalizations and deaths could we avoid if we are all regularly boostered as opposed to the current status quo. 000
Allard @allards.bsky.social · 28/01/2025There is a good movie about Hannie's story: www.imdb.com/title/tt0082...imdb.comThe Girl with the Red Hair (1981) ⭐ 6.8 | Crime, Drama, Thriller1h 50m | PG 010
Reposted by AllardLouise Hidinger, PhD @theingredientslist.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Hoping to get as many signatures as possible on this to gain the attention of City of Toronto officials. Please share widely!! As far as I know, a city-wide #IAQ policy in place could be a first in Canada. #CleanAir #CleanIndoorAir #IndoorAirQuality 1116
Allard @allards.bsky.social · 25/01/2025And that was it. Long overdue. I have moved off Twitter. Logging out, deleting the apps. 020
Reposted by AllardNorth Box Systems @northboxsystems.bsky.social · 19/01/2025We're up to 4% of our goal with 27 days left! I'm working on a new rendering of the design, things have already changed a lot thanks to all the great feedback. Please share or consider supporting this project: igg.me/at/n8zLwkwyT... #CovidIsNotOver 0812
Reposted by AllardKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Musk comes from a family that moved to South Africa *for* the racism. He has repeatedly endorsed Great Replacement Theory in the US & Neo-Nazis of the AfD in Germany. He championed the rights of white nationalists and restored Nazi accounts to Twitter. But I'm sure the Nazi salute was an accident. 12973581765
Reposted by AllardCharlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 21/01/2025An "odd looking salute" - so says the Toronto Star. There is nothing odd about fascism. It's arrogance and it's evil. 1821752407
Reposted by AllardDr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 21/01/2025There is no doubt about what certain symbols and gestures mean, especially when you put them into context of an individual or societies recent and well documented statements/behaviours. Throwing doubts on it is just gaslighting. 516727
Allard @allards.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Vancity and Coast capital are the two Canadian banks left, supporting the Net-Zero Banking Alliance. I have asked Vancity if they serve Ontario customers. 240
Allard @allards.bsky.social · 19/01/2025There is a lot wrong with this house sub committee. However, I graps to understand why some peope vehemently defend EH, Daszak and GoF research when there are plenty of smoking guns, indicating the possibility of a lab leak. We still need a proper covid origins investigation. One we may never get. 010
Allard @allards.bsky.social · 18/01/2025There will be so much talent available for smart employers/entrepreneurs. 010
Allard @allards.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Very much so. Just learned of a healthy fit teenager getting Long COVID and know quite a few endurance athletes who had to give up their jobs because of it. All of them vaccinated, almost almost all of them with 'mild' omicron and all from a 'mild' initial infection. 1121
Allard @allards.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Below is a meta-study published last year about this. There is seems to be benefit for the general population? Even if the effect would be moderate, there would still be a lot of avoided chronic illness and disability. www.journalofinfection.com/action/showP...journalofinfection.com 110
Allard @allards.bsky.social · 08/01/2025I wish Long COVID prevention is considered more often when evaluating antiviral effectiveness, funding and prescribing them. There are a few studies that show that they lower the chances of devloping Long COVID. 120
Allard @allards.bsky.social · 08/01/2025This will be spectacularly ratioed. Also note the US hand coming from the left. In visual communication, the good people come from the left. They know that. 120
Allard @allards.bsky.social · 06/01/2025For people with Long COVID (and covid cautious people in general), the lack of mask mandates in healthcare is a big accessibility issue. Many of us have started to avoid health care if there is a chance we would have to unmask for a procedure or have to stay overnight. 000
Allard @allards.bsky.social · 06/01/2025I and most of the LC people I know would be included according these criteria but the study’s outcomes do not match the lived experiences I know of. This study feels odd. 000
Allard @allards.bsky.social · 05/01/2025CBT and physio may help some people learn how to manage their symptoms. It's not a cure though. My personal LC rehab experience (and those of LC folks speak with) has been a mixed bag with no significant improvements. I hope this won't be used to argue for psychogenesis and gaslighting patients. 120
Allard @allards.bsky.social · 27/12/2024After finding out how these charities work I have stopped giving. I know of others who have come to the same conclusion. 010
Allard @allards.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Felt the same back in November and December. The ‘it’s mild’ was for a lot of media, politicians and people I spoke to then the exit door of the pandemic. Most of my Long COVID peers got LC form Omicron variants. 000
Reposted by AllardJustin Ling @justinling.ca · 24/12/2024The chart Spotify doesn't want you to see. 19204102
Reposted by AllardCharlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Dear @cnn.com Invading sovereign countries is the work of fascist leaders. Referring to such threats as "teasing" is what compliant state propaganda does. Just as Trump takes lessons from Putin you could get workshop training for your editors from Russian state media. Canada will resist. 1331891648
Allard @allards.bsky.social · 22/12/2024www.doesthedogdie.comdoesthedogdie.comDoesTheDogDie.comCrowdsourced trigger warnings spoilers for movies, tv, books and more. 000
Reposted by AllardBrian Fog @uselesspriest.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Everything is on the patient. Everything. Finding out how the illness works. Finding out you need to pace (despite what you're told). Deciding how to much risk to take with infection. Finding out how to mitigate infection. Deciding how much risk to take with treatment. 312132
Reposted by AllardMary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Explanation post: Those who followed me on X know I posted about medical access - including vaccines - the need for masks and the need for dogs. I never posted about politics. Now I’m getting political. I can hope we all are. There’s so much at stake in Canada. This is the tip a huge iceberg: 21401182
Reposted by AllardBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 20/12/2024I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.” The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party. 935166786566
Reposted by AllardNB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I have to get up and start my day now so maybe I’ll continue this later, but in Nov 2022 we found out that PHAC and CADTH (now CDA) had been keeping a few hundred people total across every province and territory in Canada, including CMOHs, informed on LC since JULY 2020. 14114
Reposted by AllardKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/11/2024This should be front page news. 70% of patients requiring the hospital for Covid CAUGHT it in healthcare. That’s an alarming amount of completely preventable hospitalizations. Healthcare settings know how to stop spread. Clean air & mandatory respirators. Forcibly infecting patients is wrong 🧵/1 27931424
Reposted by AllardMarie Snyder @mariesnyder.bsky.social · 28/11/2024"Stopping universal masking and SARS-CoV-2 testing was associated with a significant increase in hospital-onset respiratory viral infections relative to community infections. Restarting the masking of health care workers was associated with a significant decrease." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...jamanetwork.comTesting and Masking Policies and Hospital-Onset Respiratory Viral InfectionsThis cohort study examines the ratio between hospital- and community-onset respiratory viral infections at different levels of testing and masking from 2020 to 2024. 511649
Reposted by AllardThe Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 18/11/2024Conservatives announce new innocuous thing they’re terrified ofthebeaverton.comConservatives announce new innocuous thing they're terrified of“Like all bullies, conservatives are deeply afraid of pretty much everything." 7499131
