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Healthcare workers, researchers & advocates providing accurate COVID information & supporting evidence-based policies. #POPBC protectbc.ca

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Protect Our Province BC @protectbc.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

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Protect Our Province BC @protectbc.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Happening this Sunday from 1-7pm - The 3rd Annual Clean Air Festival in Vancouver. How has it been three years already? This is a Covid safer hybrid event with respirator masks required 😷 & available free onsite. Lots of prizes & music too! 🎶 Register here 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/clean...

Colorful illustrated poster featuring a cartoon like sky with clouds, rolling hills and trees advertising the 3rd annual Clean Air Festival in Vancouver on Sept. 14, 1-7pm PT

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Protect Our Province BC @protectbc.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The Federal government gives BC $194 million annually to treat rare diseases. Medications are not just for curing diseases but to alleviate suffering and improve quality of life. If the drug was $1 the committee would never have been involved. vancouversun.com/news/member-...

She also took exception to the narrative that the decision in Pollock’s case was based on the cost of the drug, roughly $800,000 a year, rather than its ability to provide Pollock with an improved quality of life.

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Protect Our Province BC @protectbc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Come to the Millions Missing BC Rally On Saturday, May 10th from 1-2:30 pm at Jack Poole Plaza to support people living with ME/ CFS and Long COVID in BC and advocate for more funding for research into treatment.

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Protect Our Province BC @protectbc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The BCCDC is conducting a survey on Long Covid in the province. They ask whether Long Covid was diagnosed by a healthcare provider, which could underestimate the prevalence. Share your thoughts! Survey 🔗 ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...?

BCCDC long covid study ad on Instagram from the account "BCmixsurvry"

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Protect Our Province BC @protectbc.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Vancouver, BC today 🍁 Long COVID is real. These pillow cases tell the heartbreaking stories of some of the over 3.5 million Canadians who were previously healthy now suffering from this debilitating disease with over 100, 000 people unable to work. Governments need to help them now.

Display of colorful pillowcases with words of suffering written on them by Canadian long Covid victims - displayed outside the Vancouver Art Gallery in honor of International Long Covid Day

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Protect Our Province BC @protectbc.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

Happening Wednesday, Sept 4! Live briefing on Clean Air in Schools with Protect our Province BC's Dr. Susan Kuo and below guests ⬇️ Webinar link 🔗 protectbc.ca/live

Colorful banner with box of crayons advertising live stream briefing

Clean Air in Schools:
A Breath of Fresh Air
Dr Susan Kuo Interviews:
Suzie Mah
COPE VSB School Board Trustee
Luc Latulippe
Clean Air in BC Schools
Jacqueline Ferreira
Researcher, Parent, &
Disability Inclusion Advocate
Wednesday Sept 4th, 2024
1 to 2 pm PDT
www.protectbc.ca/live

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Protect Our Province BC @protectbc.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

They won the Nobel prize for their work developing Covid vaccines and they wore masks to receive their prizes - even after the advent of the vaccine they developed. They are demonstrating that they understand that layering protections works better against infection than any one measure. Bravo!

screenshot of tweet showing nobel prize winners holding statuettes at the prize ceremony, wearing masks.

Katalin Karikó + Drew Weissman, who identified a chemical tweak to messenger RNA that laid the foundation for vaccines against Covid-19 that have since been administered billions of times globally, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine this morning. https://twitter.com/globalhlthtwit/status/1708800243926516145

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Protect Our Province BC @protectbc.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

So despite the welcome return of masks to many health care settings, both the PHO and the Minister of Health persist in spreading misinformation & minimizing risk. So why did they give us such a strong mask rule? Only 2 of BC's 5 health regions reliably report hospital outbreaks. Here's 1 of them:

Fraser Health Authority:
Outbreaks declared in 4 major FH hospitals, all in acute care, all Covid-19. This means transmission happening within each unit, where patients are already by definition extremely sick.

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Protect Our Province BC @protectbc.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Lastly, why are the Ministry of Health, MInister @adriandix and PHO Bonnie Henry offloading the responsibility for requiring masking onto healthcare workers, and not having the courage to wear it themselves? #bcpoli

https://x.com/frozen/status/1707153616232910949?s=20

"So in effect, anti-maskers will now blame frontline healthcare workers for healthcare masking policies, whereas before such blame would have been directed at the MOH/PHO.

A blanket directive requiring masking in all healthcare settings would have avoided this." https://bc.ctvnews.ca/continuous-masking-returning-to-b-c-hospitals-clinics-care-homes-1.6580288

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Protect Our Province BC @protectbc.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Public health authorities are *already* hauling out this discredited theory again. Here it is in a disguised form: the C-19 immunity task force blaming RSV on the pandemic. Perhaps RSV spiking *is* due to the pandemic, but not due to "immunity debt"? www.covid19immunitytaskforce.ca/british-colu...

"The increase in RSV severity outcomes, including need for intensive care respiratory therapies and longer lengths of stay, seen at the only paediatric hospital in British Columbia suggests belated severity trends that may be related to a loss of RSV seasonality during the pandemic."

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Protect Our Province BC @protectbc.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

What would it take? We will have a go. "Immunity debt" is the false theory that people (esp kids) got so sick last fall because for a very brief period early in the pandemic they were somewhat protected from viruses like RSV due to masks & to schools closing. It's poppycock. Here's why. 1/x

https://x.com/1goodtern/status/1704497668708339809?s=20

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