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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I hear about the Cornell 7, I had just had an experience at the playground with my daughter. It serves to remind us of the patriarchal structures that allowed such an apparently disgusting rape and complicity to have occurred.

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Part 2: what does the evidence on forced treatment actually say?

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There’s increasing discussion about forced treatment in Ontario; I’m doing a series over on Instagram around it. Here’s part 1: have we been here before?

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Canadian Peace Museum @canadianpeacemuseum.ca · 22/09/2026

Yesterday, we launched our museum CBC radio interview: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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WutTheWut😵‍💫 RBroeck🗳️💙 @wutthewut.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Believe the science. It is literally written in stone. Vaccinate.

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Join tomorrow! Let’s chat public health.

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Join tomorrow! Let’s chat public health.

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The Energy Mix @theenergymix.com · 09/06/2026

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.

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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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Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

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.

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Doctor says this Ebola outbreak is different because “we’re so far behind”

YouTube video by CBS News

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

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 👇

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Jeannine Taylor @wiredwoman.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

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.

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The world’s health ❤️ beats as one.

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

What I think is needed now are resources, support and solidarity channeled through @who and trusted organizations like @msf. They don’t need the world’s fear-mongering, walls and more isolation. Supporting each other’s health is also how we protect our own health.

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

My heart breaks 💔for what so many communities are going through right now. Healthcare workers I met were tremendously capable, including managing complex #ebola outbreaks in a complex geography, despite consistent exposure to violence, colonial harms, inadequate resources and ongoing exploitation.

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

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.

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

“'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/...

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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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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

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.

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This will support health guideline panels in addressing the urgent need to ground human health decisions in the planetary health context. Please have a read. Can you use it in upcoming guidance? Comment Below.

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Huge thanks to coauthors! It wouldn't have been possible without a tremendous group of people who care coming together to support operationalizing the planetary health framework in a practical way.

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

GRADE Guidance 46: Integrating Planetary Health in Health Guidelines comes from 2 in-person workshops, more than 40 monthly meetings, thousands of emails/file edits, and countless discussions and debates using real guideline examples to create practical and aspirational guidance to improve the field

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

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.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

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...

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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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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Part 1: A public health perspective on…homelessness.

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

👉 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

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

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!

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

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.

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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

An image of a person holding a syringe and inserting the syringe into a COVID vaccine vial.

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

My huge thanks to the tremendous staff who have worked at the CTS for all of the love and support they’ve given the most under-served in our community over the past 3 years.

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I just worry this is all about money, nothing to do with prevention and health.

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

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.

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Still worth efforts to avoid and prevent COVID-19. Improvements in air quality/ventilation, masking, testing/staying home when sick, mouthwash are all effective strategies, if you haven’t read our guideline our addressing these interventions and more: canpcc.ca

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Home - Canadian Guidelines for Post-COVID-19 Condition (CAN-PCC)

[...]Read More...

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Chris Houston @chrishouston.ca · 16/04/2026

Are people more outraged by Trump AI-playing Jesus than the “a whole civilization will die” threat?

Trump post that opens “A whole civilization will die tonight…”

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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.

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Short Stack Fella 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @shortstackfella.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Saving lives and freeing up hospital capacity.

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

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.

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The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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...

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I may not be a mathematician but these headlines are telling. 🏠

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

In 1985 the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts. Healthcare workers could lead a renewed charge again against Nuclear War.

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

This week’s threats of “erasing a civilization” were the brink of nuclear war and should reignite the work to deproliferate from nuclear weapons. We don’t need these doomsday weapons in the control of powerful and crazy men, and they risk our species and planet.

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I just want to give kudos to the Peterborough transit @cityptbo.bsky.social driver who walked a lady in through the slippery icy snow to the YMCA this morning. Above and beyond caring! As they say… April snow brings… May solidarity?

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The healthcare system may be challenged, strained, but it’s pretty darn amazing most of the time. It could be better, but I’m so grateful we have a universal one here in 🇨🇦. Cherish and protect it ❤️

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