From ODPD: Nuvaxovid will be available for pharmacies to order starting the week of Oct 26. ...updated Moderna COVID-19 vaccines are available now at participating pharmacies ...speak with a pharmacy and request that they order it for you once it becomes available.

For someone with diabetes over 65, which is better: adjuvanted flu shot or high dose flu shot? A JAMA study found no diff, but made no comment on diabetics. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam… @angie_rasmussen @PeterHotez

What viruses can be quickly tested for in Ontario ERs? If I can use a RAT for flu/covid bought via Costco, there must be some sort of RATs for the commonly seen viruses for ER usage? Someone please the process? @flindall_steve @alandrummond2 @raghu_venugopal

Anyone know where Novavax (Nuvaxovid) will be available in Windsor, Ontario?

Anyone know of free RATs and masks in Kitchener Waterloo? @ESL_fairy

Important coverage from CTV News: Outdated assumptions about airborne transmission have shaped and continue to shape the response to COVID and infection-control policies more broadly We know COVID is airborne. Our policies need to catch up Worth seeing ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/o…

Thank you @CTVNews for putting out this piece! Vital, factual and a long time coming. Let’s hope people read it and absorb it.

The @WHO describes wildfire smoke as “a frequently underestimated health risk,” noting that it is “a complex mixture of gases and very small particles, released when trees, vegetation, buildings and other materials burn.” thewhig.com/opinion/johnston…

‘Outdated’ health policies surrounding Covid still pose a danger today, says U of C researcher ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/o…

Outdated’ health policies surrounding Covid still pose a danger today, says U of C researcher Dr Mark Ungrin. We also hear from Dr David Keegan and Kerri Bowser and you’ll notice they all have masks on. Great modelling along with the messaging. #MaskUp

“Unfortunately, when Covid hit, there was very little attention paid to aerosol transmission as a means of Covid infecting from one person to another,” Ungrin said. “Warnings were provided by scientists, engineers, occupational health and safety...(1/🧵) ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/o…

How about it @YorkRegionGovt @OakValleyHealth Let's cut those wait times by ensuring no in hospital transmission of airborne pathogens!

Paging Dr Leonardi! #leonardieffect @fitterhappierAJ

So glad @DFisman is back posting Thank you.

Climate change. Canada’s boreal forest is far north. Most parts of it only reach 64F (18C) averages in the heat of the summer. Its density and climate also means it gets very little evaporation compared to its rainfall, and is subject to frost 9 months of the year, and heavy fog the rest of the time. This kept this biome very humid, kept soil damp, and left most of the low level foliage coated in dew all day long. Some parts of the forest even had thick levels of permafrost beneath the topsoil that on rare hot days would seep water back into the ecosystem. Just as many wildfires started by lightning strike in previous decades as now. The difference is they struggled to catch and spread in this damp environment. Now extreme dry weather, record breaking heat, northern thaw, erode that protective moisture barrier, leaving the boreal forest vulnerable especially in the more southern parts. Boreal forests previously went through this process naturally when an over density caused a drier environment you’d get high-intensity crown fires that were cyclical. Every 50-200 years depending on region. Now we get them annually. Boreal forest fires are much more severe than others too. The long history of cyclical burns means the soil contains charcoal, the thick multi-layer foliage adds fodder and causes the fire to spread quickly, and pine, spruce, and aspens are all some of the trees with both the most density and the best for wood burning. It results in towering forest fires of immense heat and rapid spread. These forests are denser than anything else in North America or Europe, and the current fire in Ontario alone, is the same square mileage as the entire state of Delaware. From the time it ignited, to covering that size, took less than 20 hours. While some in the US still think climate change is a hoax, we are all going to deal with the consequences of it, as we’ve turned the largest forest in the world into a tinder box, and fires in less than 0.01% of it drowns the entire continent in smoke.

This has some great info, including actually showing people in masks: @IQAir Glory Dolphin Hammes is a rockstar! As is @IAQinGWN ctvnews.ca/canada/wildfires/…

Make sure to use the 'recirculate' mode in your car's ventilation system. It brought the PM2.5 count in my car down to 10 ug/m3 from 55. Didn't feel that choking sensation as much. God help us all!

So frustrated at people not taking the proper precautions, whether for air pollution from fires or disease. FAFO....

Me too!