Family Doctor, Clinical Researcher /Founder - PrimeHealth Research Columnist @CBCRadio @GlobalNewsTo @TorontoStar #IG :@dririsgorfinkel_
Toronto, Ontario
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Super-bad idea, @fordnation !
Cramming more prisoners into Ontario’s already overcrowded jails invites
-Violence
-Dehumanization
-Infectious disease spread
The impacts extend well beyond prison cells.
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Thank you for sharing this @DrGorfinkel
Im holding on to the hope that it's in dark times, like these, that the foundations for a better future are laid
Today is Oct 7.
It’s 3 years since the deadliest attack in Israel’s history
It’s a day of mourning
…for both the lives lost & for the Israel I once revered.
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Today is Oct 7.
It’s 3 years since the deadliest attack in Israel’s history
It’s a day of mourning
…for both the lives lost & for the Israel I once revered.
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Today is Oct. 7
It’s 3 years since the deadliest attack on Israel in its history.
It’s a day of mourning
…both for the lives lost
& for the Israel I once revered.
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CONFLICTING POLICIES
As Ontario spends
$2.1 BILLION expanding PUBLIC health teams
@fordnation is pouring tax dollars into PRIVATE healthcare
-Poaching scarce staff
-⬆️ing public waits
-Threatening patient safety
…& the Canada Health Act
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"RUSSIAN PLAGUE" = PNEUMONIC PLAGUE
🦠Yersinia pestis
⏲️Starts 1-4 days after exposure
DAY 1: High fever, headache, body aches
DAY 2: SEVERE cough & chest pain
➡️watery sputum ➡️BLOODY sputum
DAY 3-4: Respiratory failure, shock
☠️100% FATAL w/out antibioitics w/in 24 hours
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HOW💉Novavax, Pfzier & Moderna COMPARE
🧐All 3 are about equally effective
⬇️ER & urgent care visits by 50%
⬇️Hosptlztns by 53-55%
🧐Novavax has fewer & less severe short-term side effects than Pfizer & Moderna
Novavax protection likely lasts longer
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🚨 Correction!
Which gives longer-lasting, real world PROTECTION?
Moderna or Novavax?
After 1 year, BOTH give nearly identical protection against INFECTIONS
💉33% for Moderna
💉29% for Novavax
See-
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This just landed in my inbox😊
Novavax will be available in LIMITED QUANTITIES
...& only in PHARMACIES & Public health units
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🚨BIG COVID-19 NEWS
Ontario is funding NOVOVAVAX this year!
💉Non-mRNA vaccine, protein-based
💉For 12 yrs of age & up
💉Limited availability in PHARMACIES ONLY
Moderna & Pfizer's mRNA vaccines are still available.
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Where else is Novavax funded?
British Columbia
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
...while New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, & Yukon are considering - or looking into - purchasing doses.
For updates, check out
stillcoviding.ca/en/resource…
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“Essential reading.”
(Thank you, Dr. Venugopal)
Here you go - no paywall
Essential reading by Dr. Iris Gorfinkel how the Ontario government bet on profiteer medicine but how it predictably failed. Conservative governments across the nation are a threat to the public's health. They dismiss the basic needs of average Canadians.
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Shifting Ontario's funding to PRIVATE CLINICS is a PROVEN POLICY FAILURE.
It costs more
It poaches scarce healthcare workers
It⬆️wait times
...& it threatens patient safety
Q: Is this "leadership," @fordnation?
@TorontoStar @alandrummond2 @CMA_Docs @CdnDrs4Medicare
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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. retweeted
"The corporate promise of “pay more, get more” is a lie. Private clinics cost Ontario more, threaten patient safety and increase public wait times ... Ford’s two-tier medical vision is transforming a universal Canadian right into an unaffordable corporate luxury"
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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. retweeted
I like the directness of @DrGorfinkel - and agree with her sentiments. Critical for @OntariosDoctors @Albertadoctors and @CMA_Docs
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For visual learners, see an aligned take in my video which discusses the impact of contracting out surgical procedures on the public system
Provinces are contracting out more and more simple surgeries to private for-profit providers. So why are waitlists getting longer for cancer and heart surgeries? Learn more on my substack #healthcarecanada #privatization #medicare
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I cannot do this work alone.
Many thanks to Dr. Venugopal
…& to ALL others who stand on guard for the Canada Health Act.
@TorontoStar @DFisman @picardonhealth @NightShiftMD
Essential reading by Dr. Iris Gorfinkel how the Ontario government bet on profiteer medicine but how it predictably failed. Conservative governments across the nation are a threat to the public's health. They dismiss the basic needs of average Canadians.
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A total travesty.
3,700 🇺🇸 MEASLES CASES and counting
All 💉preventable.
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This GP agreees.
❌ @fordnation, please do NOT CLOSE Toronto’s bike lanes.
I hereby sign this petition.
✍️ please retweet
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INFECTIONS cause 1 in 8 CANCERS GLOBALLY
Here are the TOP 3:
🥇 H.pylori➡️760,000 cases of STOMACH CA
🥈HPV➡️750,000 cases of CERVICAL CA
🥉Hep B➡️360,000 cases of LIVER CA
🥈&🥉are nearly 100% VACCINE PREVENTABLE
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I'm especially disgusted by UPSELLING
in private OPHTHALMOLOGY CLINICS.
It's often in the THOUSANDS of $$$.
Patients are usually OLDER & on a FIXED INCOME, making them SUPER-VULNERABLE.
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