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Brett Barrett (she/ her)

@bbarrettrph.bsky.social
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Associate Professor @UWPharmacy Casual Pharmacist at WRHN @ Midtown Obsessive about Infectious Disease Rx & Antimicrobial Stewardship (Opinions expressed my own)

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
We can build walls or we can be more ambitious — and build something better, stronger, and more just.
Photo of Prime Minister Carney speaking at a podium in Davos, Switzerland. A quote from his speech is edited on top: “WHEN THE RULES NO LONGER PROTECT YOU, YOU MUST PROTECT YOURSELF. BUT LET US BE CLEAR-EYED ABOUT WHERE THIS LEADS. A WORLD OF FORTRESSES WILL BE POORER, MORE FRAGILE, AND LESS SUSTAINABLE.”
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
In short, they are doing a trial in a low-income country with a high prevalence of a disease that would never be approved in a high-income country. They are designing a trial intentionally not looking for the long-term benefit, hoping to find a signal of *something* in the first 6 weeks. Shameful.
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Brett Barrett (she/ her) @bbarrettrph.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Antibiotics for a viral infection: the medical equivalent of yelling at your toaster because the TV won't work. #AMRawareCA #AMR #AntimicrobialResistance
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Brett Barrett (she/ her) @bbarrettrph.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
#AMRawareCA
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Brett Barrett (she/ her) @bbarrettrph.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Happy World Antibiotic Awareness Week to all those advancing stewardship one unnecessary meropenem order at a time! #AMRawareCA
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Guzzling up increasingly scarce fresh water to enable AI. What could possibly go wrong?
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Take note.
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Dr. Jarret Ruminski @thedevilhistory.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
One thing that isn't discussed enough re: close elections around the globe is how having multiple left-of-centre parties benefits the broader global Right the most. Even in the 2-party U.S., the constant infighting among everyone to the Left of Pinochet has empowered the worst people on earth.
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Dr. Céline Gounder @celinegounder.com · 30/05/2025
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has expressed deep concern over the health of American children, describing them as the "sickest generation" in US history. 100 years ago, 1 in 3 kids died before reaching the age of 5.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I have been sick for a week and I just read about "something going around" in a subreddit, which I guess is how I get my information now that the CDC is officially spending the next four years determining when and how microscopes became gay.
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Onisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"...a huge step forward for sexual health and will be crucial in protecting individuals, helping to prevent the spread of infection and reduce the rising rates of antibiotic resistance strains of the bacteria." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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‘World-first’ gonorrhoea vaccine to be rolled out in England
Jab hailed as ‘landmark moment for sexual health’ and comes amid record cases of infection
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Harry Rasmussen 🇨🇦 @harryrasmussen.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
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ACOG @acog.org · 15/05/2025
ACOG has released new clinical guidance on pain management for in-office uterine and cervical procedures, including IUD insertion. The recommendations emphasize patient counseling, evidence-based techniques, and shared decision making to improve care and reduce disparities. buff.ly/rxhFVnM
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 10/04/2025
PSA: Your period should not 🩸last longer than 7 days 🩸interfere with your life 🩸happen more than monthly 🩸require product changes more than every 2 hours 🩸have clots larger than a quarter 🩸cause debilitating pain 🩸require double product coverage 🩸make you anemic
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
There are legitimate issues with the pharmaceutical industry and how it's regulated; the wellness industry is even more predatory, like it's not even close. Woo woo bullshit on par with leeches and humors
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 04/05/2025
The perverting effect of money.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Not a word of this is true. Literally not a word.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
One of Mark Carney's first priorities should be depolarizing our politics and protecting us from foreign-funded disinformation and other deliberate attempts at division. The best way to do that? Electoral reform. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/04/30/o...
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Mark Carney needs to depolarize our politics
Under a more proportional system, both parties would be incentivized to compete more aggressively in all parts of the country — and rewarded for efforts aimed at building bridges rather than burning t...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
IMPORTANT: “As Canadians prepare to go to the polls on Monday, they are being bombarded with misleading rightwing content on US social media platforms that has fuelled concerns about their potentially damaging role in the general election.” The easiest, most constant & most dangerous interference.
ft.com
Canadians bombarded with rightwing online content ahead of voting
FT analysis finds network of X accounts attacking Liberal leader Mark Carney
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
(1/4) It was America and Britain that guaranteed the sovereignty of Ukraine and its borders in return for persuading them to give up their nuclear weapons.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
This is not peace, this is surrender with extra steps.
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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Let’s dream up to ways to shit on women. Oh hey, let’s cancel the largest clinical trial ever for women www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 10/04/2025
Prediction: Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
See how this works? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Billionaires Score Best-Ever Day as Stocks Soar on Tariff Pause
The world’s wealthiest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth on Wednesday — the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — as stock markets soared after ...
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kit spooks 👻 @kitsparks.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Insulin was discovered in Canada & the patent was sold for a dollar because Banting & Best weren’t interested in profiting off kids dying horribly of starvation as their blood turned to acid. Our government makes stamps & coins & stuff about it. US pharma can get fucked. Enjoy a Heritage Minute.
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Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin
YouTube video by Historica Canada
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
A network of X accounts is targeting Canada ahead of the election. The accounts are pumping out thousands of posts about the Canadian economy and alleged support within Canada for U.S. President Donald Trump’s annexation threat. #cdnpoli thelogic.co/news/canada-...
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A network of X accounts is targeting Canada ahead of the election - The Logic
The accounts are pumping out thousands of posts about the Canadian economy and alleged support within Canada for U.S. President Donald Trump’s annexation threat.
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Ryan McGreal @ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Never forget: Pierre Poilievre is determined to kill CBC because he wants Canadians to have no choice but to get our news and commentary from an American right-wing hedge fund.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Updated #Measles outbreak map in #Canada Measles cases are now confirmed in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. Measles were eradicated in Canada in 1998, get your children vaccinated, stop listening to propaganda. Link globalnews.ca/news/1108874...
Outbreak Measles map showing measles cases from British Columbia to Quebec and parts of New Brunswick
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Brett Barrett (she/ her) @bbarrettrph.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Pollieve won't let reporters on the plane, demands to know what questions are going to be asked in advance, picks specific reporters to ask questions, and has staff physically push reporters away in NL. Doesn't seem very transparent to me 🤨 #cdnpoli
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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Misinformation is lying and lying to discourage parents from vaccinating is sending children to hospital and ICU. Measles cases were rare (graph) www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif... Measles is preventable but we have 661 cases. Vaccinate children. Please. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Measles cases went from 15 in 2013 to 346 in 2025 counting only till March. 
We have 661 measles cases in Ontario to date with 52 hospitalizations this week and 3 in ICU.
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Old Lady Linda @oldladylinda.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Love this April Fools collaboration between Waterloo regional police and the KWSP (Kitchener Waterloo Stratford Perth) Humane Society! #marketing #AprilFools #Canada
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 25/03/2025
There was a lot of chatter in the recent Ontario election about Doug Ford and the Starlink deal. So I'm wondering how many journalists covering the Canadian election will ask CPC candidate Matt Strauss about his personal financial ties to Elon Musk.
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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Hey Canada, when you read a Postmedia newspaper like the National Post or the Toronto Sun, you are reading the views of American billionaires, not ordinary Canadians. Boycott Postmedia.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
There will be increasing US propaganda aimed at Canada. Media will be complicit in normalizing it. Secret fentanyl labs, porous border that threatens security, etc. Bet on it. And a lot of Americans will eat it up. This has been the American playbook for decades.
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Brett Barrett (she/ her) @bbarrettrph.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Not surprising...
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The fact that US-owned National Post has given an enormous amount of print space to Jordan Peterson, a cultural heavy hitter (even if you hate him, he is that) to attack Mark Carney suggests to me that the Right really is afraid of Carney becoming leader.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
This is not the time for politics as usual.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This is an important read. Most vaccine skeptic parents think they are protecting their children by choosing not to vaccinate. This is thanks to pervasive mis/disinformation. Understanding why the change their minds is informative to improve vaccine uptake. www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
theguardian.com
Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds: ‘I really made a mistake’
Researchers believe personal stories are more persuasive than facts alone in addressing vaccine skepticism
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Brian J. Karem @briankarem.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.
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Megan A Rech, PharmD, MSc @meganarech.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Finished season 1 The Pitt on HBO Max. I agree w/ EM physicians that it is a realistic portrayal of ED.. though EM pharmacists are absent from the series. We need an EM PharmD character in season 2 so the public can finally see what we do! 👩🏼‍⚕️💊
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Brett Barrett (she/ her) @bbarrettrph.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I guess we'll get a placebo group for next flu season?
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