Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell
@drhanwell.bsky.social
🌾🌈 Canadian Epidemiologist & Human Biologist (esp #Nutrition)
#HealthEquity #PublicHealth #LandBack #CleanTheAir #CovidIsAirborne
Director @ONSchoolSafety.bsky.social
Opinions my own.
#HealthEquity #PublicHealth #LandBack #CleanTheAir #CovidIsAirborne
Director @ONSchoolSafety.bsky.social
Opinions my own.
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell
Please use every opportunity to put this in front of people being pressured to let EBM/GRADE and "evidence synthesis" gatekeep and rent-seek their way into power over science.
Mind-blowingly stupid, shielded from retraction, and impacting guidance made by EBM cargo cultists today.
#MedSky #SciSky
Mind-blowingly stupid, shielded from retraction, and impacting guidance made by EBM cargo cultists today.
#MedSky #SciSky
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Covld informed and #IAQ advocates in #Canada… here’s a chance to #MakeYourNoise:
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2026 Webinars - Have Your Say!
We're planning our 2026 Speaker Series webinars and we'd love your input.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Covld informed and #IAQ advocates in #Canada… here’s a chance to #MakeYourNoise:
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Long COVID can leave people more disabled than 98% of the population — with struggles rivaling stroke, rheumatoid arthritis, even Parkinson’s. This is far more than “just fatigue.”
theconversation.com/long-covid-i... #BlueSky #MedSky #IDSky #NewsSky #EMSky #NurseSky #PedsSky
theconversation.com/long-covid-i... #BlueSky #MedSky #IDSky #NewsSky #EMSky #NurseSky #PedsSky
Long COVID is more than fatigue. Our new study suggests its impact is similar to a stroke or Parkinson’s
Long COVID isn’t just a bunch of lingering symptoms. A new study shows it can stop peoole doing what they want to do, and need to do.
theconversation.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell
More proof that it is not merely a "respiratory disease" (which are threatening enough as it is!)
Covid is a full on vascular disease with multiple organ involvement, including - and especially - the brain
Do your best not to get it and spread it, please
Covid is a full on vascular disease with multiple organ involvement, including - and especially - the brain
Do your best not to get it and spread it, please
Covid-19 roughly doubled the risk of vascular dementia in adults 50+ and for those with pre-existing mental illness the risk rose ~5x.
A similar signal appears after other viral infections - a reminder that viruses aren’t "mild" when it comes to brain health 🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
A similar signal appears after other viral infections - a reminder that viruses aren’t "mild" when it comes to brain health 🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years - npj Dementia
npj Dementia - COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years
www.nature.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
More proof that it is not merely a "respiratory disease" (which are threatening enough as it is!)
Covid is a full on vascular disease with multiple organ involvement, including - and especially - the brain
Do your best not to get it and spread it, please
Covid is a full on vascular disease with multiple organ involvement, including - and especially - the brain
Do your best not to get it and spread it, please
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell
Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.
Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:
“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:
“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.
Israel seems to be intercepting right now.
All eyes needed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
Israel seems to be intercepting right now.
All eyes needed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.
Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:
“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
1/3
Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:
“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
1/3
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell
Will Canada denounce the violent illegal actions committed by Israel against the unarmed humanitarian flotilla?
www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...
www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...
24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Will Canada denounce the violent illegal actions committed by Israel against the unarmed humanitarian flotilla?
www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...
www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...
All eyes on Gaza! All eyes on the flotilla!
BREAKING: IsraelI naval vessels have already began ILLEGAL action against the flotilla in International waters.
www.instagram.com/reel/DPRo2d-...
Live updates: www.youtube.com/live/Hd-V93t...
BREAKING: IsraelI naval vessels have already began ILLEGAL action against the flotilla in International waters.
www.instagram.com/reel/DPRo2d-...
Live updates: www.youtube.com/live/Hd-V93t...
Live: Global Sumud Flotilla nears high-risk zone off Gaza coast
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
All eyes on Gaza! All eyes on the flotilla!
BREAKING: IsraelI naval vessels have already began ILLEGAL action against the flotilla in International waters.
www.instagram.com/reel/DPRo2d-...
Live updates: www.youtube.com/live/Hd-V93t...
BREAKING: IsraelI naval vessels have already began ILLEGAL action against the flotilla in International waters.
www.instagram.com/reel/DPRo2d-...
Live updates: www.youtube.com/live/Hd-V93t...
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell
🚨Another livestream of the Global Sumud Flotilla
being attacked by the IOF on international waters while all governments sit and watch like the complicit cowards they are www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd-V...
being attacked by the IOF on international waters while all governments sit and watch like the complicit cowards they are www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd-V...
Live: Global Sumud Flotilla nears high-risk zone off Gaza coast
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
🚨Another livestream of the Global Sumud Flotilla
being attacked by the IOF on international waters while all governments sit and watch like the complicit cowards they are www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd-V...
being attacked by the IOF on international waters while all governments sit and watch like the complicit cowards they are www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd-V...
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell
Thanks for sharing that article, @onschoolsafety.bsky.social!
Evidence just keeps piling up:
#CleanAir is the way:
bsky.app/profile/mjna...
Evidence just keeps piling up:
#CleanAir is the way:
bsky.app/profile/mjna...
Looking for another compelling reason to prioritize clean indoor air?
“Exposure to the airborne particles causes proteins in the brain to misfold into the clumps, which are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, the third most common form of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia.”
“Exposure to the airborne particles causes proteins in the brain to misfold into the clumps, which are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, the third most common form of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia.”
Air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia, research suggests
Airborne particles cause toxic clumps of proteins in brain that are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, study indicates
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Thanks for sharing that article, @onschoolsafety.bsky.social!
Evidence just keeps piling up:
#CleanAir is the way:
bsky.app/profile/mjna...
Evidence just keeps piling up:
#CleanAir is the way:
bsky.app/profile/mjna...
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My kiddo took home a gold medal from a tournament in Ottawa this weekend and I took home these pics from the #MarchOnOttawa.
Canada is on the wrong side of history by not taking a stronger stance against Israel’s war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide of Palestinians.
#FreePalestine
Canada is on the wrong side of history by not taking a stronger stance against Israel’s war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide of Palestinians.
#FreePalestine
April 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My kiddo took home a gold medal from a tournament in Ottawa this weekend and I took home these pics from the #MarchOnOttawa.
Canada is on the wrong side of history by not taking a stronger stance against Israel’s war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide of Palestinians.
#FreePalestine
Canada is on the wrong side of history by not taking a stronger stance against Israel’s war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide of Palestinians.
#FreePalestine
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Nick Valencia, who has been doing amazing reporting, just wrote about this:
“These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview
open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...
“These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview
open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...
September 28, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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My pharmacist told me the other day that anyone in proximity to me can also be vaccinated early because of my risk factors so if you're in a similar situation &/or live with someone who meets high risk criteria, it's worth seeing if you can also get vaccinated.
PSA: Ontario #Covid vaccines available for high risk/priority individuals starting w/o Sept 22 (now) (Flu shots Oct 14). Free flu and covid shots will be available to the general public Oct 27. More in link, including pharmacy locations.
*Website may change over time*
www.ontario.ca/vaccine-loca...
*Website may change over time*
www.ontario.ca/vaccine-loca...
COVID-19 pharmacy vaccine locations
Find your closest pharmacy to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
www.ontario.ca
September 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
My pharmacist told me the other day that anyone in proximity to me can also be vaccinated early because of my risk factors so if you're in a similar situation &/or live with someone who meets high risk criteria, it's worth seeing if you can also get vaccinated.
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell
Back to school means back to poor indoor air quality for our kids in Ontario’s schools and school buses.
Indoor air quality has been shown to affect mental well-being, academic performance, and school attendance.
These door hangers could serve as a helpful reminder that it’s time to clean the air.
Indoor air quality has been shown to affect mental well-being, academic performance, and school attendance.
These door hangers could serve as a helpful reminder that it’s time to clean the air.
September 2, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Back to school means back to poor indoor air quality for our kids in Ontario’s schools and school buses.
Indoor air quality has been shown to affect mental well-being, academic performance, and school attendance.
These door hangers could serve as a helpful reminder that it’s time to clean the air.
Indoor air quality has been shown to affect mental well-being, academic performance, and school attendance.
These door hangers could serve as a helpful reminder that it’s time to clean the air.
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell
Alternate title: How a Zionist lobby group gets its propaganda (aka "narrative) into Canada's media:
mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-...
mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-...
How HonestReporting Canada wages a silent war on Canadian newsrooms
Canadian journalists are finally speaking out about how the Israel lobby group HonestReporting targets newsrooms to silence Palestinian voices and perspectives.
mondoweiss.net
August 13, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Alternate title: How a Zionist lobby group gets its propaganda (aka "narrative) into Canada's media:
mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-...
mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-...
Alternate title: How a Zionist lobby group gets its propaganda (aka "narrative) into Canada's media:
mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-...
mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-...
How HonestReporting Canada wages a silent war on Canadian newsrooms
Canadian journalists are finally speaking out about how the Israel lobby group HonestReporting targets newsrooms to silence Palestinian voices and perspectives.
mondoweiss.net
August 13, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Alternate title: How a Zionist lobby group gets its propaganda (aka "narrative) into Canada's media:
mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-...
mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-...
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell
Canada’s largest union calls for release of Chris Smalls while American unions stay largely silent
CUPE stands in solidarity with US labour leader Chris Smalls and all the activists unlawfully detained by Israel while on board the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social #Handala, delivering aid to Gaza. We condemn this brutality and call for their immediate release. #LetAidIn #AllEyesOnGaza
At the Israeli prison, US human rights defender Chris Smalls was physically assaulted by seven uniformed individuals. They choked him and kicked him in the legs.
We condemn this violence against Chris and demand accountability for the assault and discriminatory treatment he faced. #BreakTheSiege
We condemn this violence against Chris and demand accountability for the assault and discriminatory treatment he faced. #BreakTheSiege
July 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Canada’s largest union calls for release of Chris Smalls while American unions stay largely silent
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“After excluding those cancer patients who died from Covid, the researchers found that cancer patients who tested positive for Covid faced an almost doubling of risk of dying from cancer compared to those patients with cancer who had tested negative.”
Covid and flu can awaken ‘sleeping’ cancer cells, scientists find
New research suggests that respiratory viruses could cause these dormant cancer cells to multiply
www.independent.co.uk
July 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM
“After excluding those cancer patients who died from Covid, the researchers found that cancer patients who tested positive for Covid faced an almost doubling of risk of dying from cancer compared to those patients with cancer who had tested negative.”
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell
Thirty-one Israeli signatories call for action from the international community:
"The international community must impose crippling sanctions on Israel until it ends this brutal campaign and implements a permanent ceasefire."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
"The international community must impose crippling sanctions on Israel until it ends this brutal campaign and implements a permanent ceasefire."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
The starvation of Gaza is shameful. Crippling sanctions on Israel are needed | Letters
Letter: Thirty-one Israeli signatories express their shame, rage and agony over the plight of Palestinians and call for action from the international community
www.theguardian.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Thirty-one Israeli signatories call for action from the international community:
"The international community must impose crippling sanctions on Israel until it ends this brutal campaign and implements a permanent ceasefire."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
"The international community must impose crippling sanctions on Israel until it ends this brutal campaign and implements a permanent ceasefire."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell
Even the most ignorant Americans won't be able to deny the Gaza Holocaust for much longer.
"Israel Has Killed 20.7% of Gaza's Population. That's 434,000 People...It's the rough equivalent of 70 million people in the USA."
stevendonziger.substack.com/p/shock-isra...
"Israel Has Killed 20.7% of Gaza's Population. That's 434,000 People...It's the rough equivalent of 70 million people in the USA."
stevendonziger.substack.com/p/shock-isra...
July 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Even the most ignorant Americans won't be able to deny the Gaza Holocaust for much longer.
"Israel Has Killed 20.7% of Gaza's Population. That's 434,000 People...It's the rough equivalent of 70 million people in the USA."
stevendonziger.substack.com/p/shock-isra...
"Israel Has Killed 20.7% of Gaza's Population. That's 434,000 People...It's the rough equivalent of 70 million people in the USA."
stevendonziger.substack.com/p/shock-isra...
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"Netanyahu is now hoping the concentration camp, or possibly camps [..] will be the gun forcing Palestinians to 'volunteer' to leave."
"It is a plan that [..] would have been worthy of Adolf Eichmann."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Ethiopia #Libya #Indonesia #Genocide #EthnicCleansing
"It is a plan that [..] would have been worthy of Adolf Eichmann."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Ethiopia #Libya #Indonesia #Genocide #EthnicCleansing
Israel and the Trump administration are carrying out their final solution in Gaza
The head of the Mossad spy agency was recently in Washington to coordinate with the White House on plans to expel Palestinians from Gaza. The plan, along with the forced starvation and mass killing…
mondoweiss.net
July 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"Netanyahu is now hoping the concentration camp, or possibly camps [..] will be the gun forcing Palestinians to 'volunteer' to leave."
"It is a plan that [..] would have been worthy of Adolf Eichmann."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Ethiopia #Libya #Indonesia #Genocide #EthnicCleansing
"It is a plan that [..] would have been worthy of Adolf Eichmann."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Ethiopia #Libya #Indonesia #Genocide #EthnicCleansing
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell
New study finds that air filters in schools reduces the number of sick days kids take.
Clean air works wonders. It’s egregious that we haven’t adopted it in all public places by now.
It reduces risk of COVID & other viral infections, allergies, asthma and helps with pollution and wildfire smoke!
Clean air works wonders. It’s egregious that we haven’t adopted it in all public places by now.
It reduces risk of COVID & other viral infections, allergies, asthma and helps with pollution and wildfire smoke!
Air filters in classrooms reduce sick days by more than 10 per cent
Putting air filters in classrooms seems to boost student attendance, which may be due to them reducing levels of air pollution, pollen, pathogens or all three
www.newscientist.com
June 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
New study finds that air filters in schools reduces the number of sick days kids take.
Clean air works wonders. It’s egregious that we haven’t adopted it in all public places by now.
It reduces risk of COVID & other viral infections, allergies, asthma and helps with pollution and wildfire smoke!
Clean air works wonders. It’s egregious that we haven’t adopted it in all public places by now.
It reduces risk of COVID & other viral infections, allergies, asthma and helps with pollution and wildfire smoke!
Peak Colonialism on Canada Day.
Please see and share Instagram post by @ravendavisart (and offer support) who was injured yesterday by aggressive Toronto police during what had been a #PeacefulRally of #Bill5.
www.instagram.com/p/DLm462hA5Vi/
#KillBill5 #LandBack
Please see and share Instagram post by @ravendavisart (and offer support) who was injured yesterday by aggressive Toronto police during what had been a #PeacefulRally of #Bill5.
www.instagram.com/p/DLm462hA5Vi/
#KillBill5 #LandBack
July 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Peak Colonialism on Canada Day.
Please see and share Instagram post by @ravendavisart (and offer support) who was injured yesterday by aggressive Toronto police during what had been a #PeacefulRally of #Bill5.
www.instagram.com/p/DLm462hA5Vi/
#KillBill5 #LandBack
Please see and share Instagram post by @ravendavisart (and offer support) who was injured yesterday by aggressive Toronto police during what had been a #PeacefulRally of #Bill5.
www.instagram.com/p/DLm462hA5Vi/
#KillBill5 #LandBack
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“You may be inclined to shrug off these harms, given the limited duration of heat waves. But you’d also be shrugging off the province’s obligation to provide students with fundamentally safe learning spaces all year long, not just when the cost of doing so is convenient”
@flannerydean.bsky.social
@flannerydean.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“You may be inclined to shrug off these harms, given the limited duration of heat waves. But you’d also be shrugging off the province’s obligation to provide students with fundamentally safe learning spaces all year long, not just when the cost of doing so is convenient”
@flannerydean.bsky.social
@flannerydean.bsky.social
Reposted by Heather "ElbowsUp" Hanwell
On CBC radio, a teacher is being interviewed. She started the day with "25 students" and ended with "11". Students were sent home w/ "headaches" & other issues.
It was simply too hot.
CBC radio is taking more calls.
Time to adopt the Heat Stress Act. #Heatwave
www.ola.org/en/legislati...
It was simply too hot.
CBC radio is taking more calls.
Time to adopt the Heat Stress Act. #Heatwave
www.ola.org/en/legislati...
Heat Stress Act, 2024
Bill 222 from Parliament 43 Session 1 of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Heat Stress Act, 2024.
www.ola.org
June 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
On CBC radio, a teacher is being interviewed. She started the day with "25 students" and ended with "11". Students were sent home w/ "headaches" & other issues.
It was simply too hot.
CBC radio is taking more calls.
Time to adopt the Heat Stress Act. #Heatwave
www.ola.org/en/legislati...
It was simply too hot.
CBC radio is taking more calls.
Time to adopt the Heat Stress Act. #Heatwave
www.ola.org/en/legislati...
I called the premier’s office at 416-325-1941 and told them:
1. many students can’t safely attend school (let alone learn!) when their classroom feels like 40 something degrees
AND
2. the government must allocate ***sufficient budget*** so that Boards can fund installation of heat pumps or A/C.
1. many students can’t safely attend school (let alone learn!) when their classroom feels like 40 something degrees
AND
2. the government must allocate ***sufficient budget*** so that Boards can fund installation of heat pumps or A/C.
Well, well, looky here.
#RyansLaw exists to protect those with #Asthma (a number increasing, btw, as C19 continues to reinfect).
At times of extreme heat, it is particularly urgent to improve the air students/staff breathe!
@osstf.bsky.social @oflabour.bsky.social
#RyansLaw exists to protect those with #Asthma (a number increasing, btw, as C19 continues to reinfect).
At times of extreme heat, it is particularly urgent to improve the air students/staff breathe!
@osstf.bsky.social @oflabour.bsky.social
June 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I called the premier’s office at 416-325-1941 and told them:
1. many students can’t safely attend school (let alone learn!) when their classroom feels like 40 something degrees
AND
2. the government must allocate ***sufficient budget*** so that Boards can fund installation of heat pumps or A/C.
1. many students can’t safely attend school (let alone learn!) when their classroom feels like 40 something degrees
AND
2. the government must allocate ***sufficient budget*** so that Boards can fund installation of heat pumps or A/C.