Christine Guptill
@healthmusicperf.bsky.social
Occupational therapy prof at UOttawa. Researches musicians’ health and work disability prevention. Oboist. https://health.uottawa.ca/people/guptill-christine
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Looks like their plan to boost productivity by ushering everyone back to the office in an ongoing pandemic didn't play out as expected
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November 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Looks like their plan to boost productivity by ushering everyone back to the office in an ongoing pandemic didn't play out as expected
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Why Clean Air in Schools is Important
YouTube video by Al Haddrell
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October 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Health Canada has released new guidelines for air quality professionals that clearly state Covid can linger in the air & respirator masks should be considered IN ADDITION to improving ventilation
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October 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Health Canada has released new guidelines for air quality professionals that clearly state Covid can linger in the air & respirator masks should be considered IN ADDITION to improving ventilation
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Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right.
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
September 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right.
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
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Indoor air quality has a critical - yet overlooked - impact on our health. We’re honoured that our CEO, Plum Stone will join the Global Commission on Healthy Indoor Air as Co-Chair, to collaborate with experts from around the globe to put a spotlight on healthier indoor environments.
September 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Indoor air quality has a critical - yet overlooked - impact on our health. We’re honoured that our CEO, Plum Stone will join the Global Commission on Healthy Indoor Air as Co-Chair, to collaborate with experts from around the globe to put a spotlight on healthier indoor environments.
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Look at this! Workers are embracing the importance of clean indoor air for health and productivity.
“Clean air is no longer a perk; it’s a baseline.”
@cupescfp.bsky.social @michaelhurleycupe.bsky.social @osstf.bsky.social @etfoeducators.bsky.social @osbcupresident.bsky.social @otffeo.bsky.social
“Clean air is no longer a perk; it’s a baseline.”
@cupescfp.bsky.social @michaelhurleycupe.bsky.social @osstf.bsky.social @etfoeducators.bsky.social @osbcupresident.bsky.social @otffeo.bsky.social
Poor workplace indoor air quality could push nearly one-third of younger workers to quit
A growing generational divide is reshaping expectations for workplace health and well-being. According to the 2025 International Day of Clean Air Survey from
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September 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Look at this! Workers are embracing the importance of clean indoor air for health and productivity.
“Clean air is no longer a perk; it’s a baseline.”
@cupescfp.bsky.social @michaelhurleycupe.bsky.social @osstf.bsky.social @etfoeducators.bsky.social @osbcupresident.bsky.social @otffeo.bsky.social
“Clean air is no longer a perk; it’s a baseline.”
@cupescfp.bsky.social @michaelhurleycupe.bsky.social @osstf.bsky.social @etfoeducators.bsky.social @osbcupresident.bsky.social @otffeo.bsky.social
Hello COVID-conscious community, can anyone help me connect with an occupational hygienist or HVAC engineer in Atlanta, Georgia? Many thanks! 🙏
August 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Hello COVID-conscious community, can anyone help me connect with an occupational hygienist or HVAC engineer in Atlanta, Georgia? Many thanks! 🙏
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Environmental lawyers demand action on lead in school drinking water https://ijb.utoronto.ca/news/canadian-environmental-law-association-demands-action-on-lead-in-drinking-water-from-new-ministry-of-education-supervisors/
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July 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Environmental lawyers demand action on lead in school drinking water https://ijb.utoronto.ca/news/canadian-environmental-law-association-demands-action-on-lead-in-drinking-water-from-new-ministry-of-education-supervisors/
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Students & their drivers deserve a safe & healthy ride to school, including clean air to breathe!
School buses have poor air filtration & ventilation systems (air quality = bad) 😔
Wearing a respirator mask (N95, KN95, etc) & opening windows (when the outdoor air is safe!) can make a difference!
School buses have poor air filtration & ventilation systems (air quality = bad) 😔
Wearing a respirator mask (N95, KN95, etc) & opening windows (when the outdoor air is safe!) can make a difference!
a cartoon of a school bus with the words " we all deserve clean air " above it
Alt: a cartoon of a school bus with the words " we all deserve clean air " above it
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June 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Students & their drivers deserve a safe & healthy ride to school, including clean air to breathe!
School buses have poor air filtration & ventilation systems (air quality = bad) 😔
Wearing a respirator mask (N95, KN95, etc) & opening windows (when the outdoor air is safe!) can make a difference!
School buses have poor air filtration & ventilation systems (air quality = bad) 😔
Wearing a respirator mask (N95, KN95, etc) & opening windows (when the outdoor air is safe!) can make a difference!
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“If HCWs wear N95 respirators and surgical masks throughout [the treatment], the total infection risk can be reduced by 94.7 % and 53.9 %, respectively.”
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Transmission of respiratory infectious diseases based on real close contact behavior in an emergency room
The risk of transmission of respiratory infectious diseases in emergency rooms is high, posing a severe threat to the health of healthcare workers (HC…
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July 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
“If HCWs wear N95 respirators and surgical masks throughout [the treatment], the total infection risk can be reduced by 94.7 % and 53.9 %, respectively.”
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We are experiencing a dangerous heat wave in Ontario.
What is the plan for schools and school buses without A/C? How are students, educators, and bus drivers expected to endure such unsafe learning, transportation, and working conditions?
Let us know what’s happening at your family’s school(s).
What is the plan for schools and school buses without A/C? How are students, educators, and bus drivers expected to endure such unsafe learning, transportation, and working conditions?
Let us know what’s happening at your family’s school(s).
June 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
We are experiencing a dangerous heat wave in Ontario.
What is the plan for schools and school buses without A/C? How are students, educators, and bus drivers expected to endure such unsafe learning, transportation, and working conditions?
Let us know what’s happening at your family’s school(s).
What is the plan for schools and school buses without A/C? How are students, educators, and bus drivers expected to endure such unsafe learning, transportation, and working conditions?
Let us know what’s happening at your family’s school(s).
Exam week, and we’re in a heat wave. AGAIN. @johnfraseros.bsky.social, please help us advocate for funding for appropriate HVAC in schools.
“…The greater exposure to the heat is just going to put them at higher risk,’ Coker explained, adding that hot temperatures can also affect students’ learning performance.”
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When it gets really hot, a lot of schools become insufferable | CBC News
Overheated classrooms are becoming more common amid more frequent instances of extreme heat. In some regions, that rising heat also coincides with smoke from wildfires. Parents, educators and experts ...
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June 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Exam week, and we’re in a heat wave. AGAIN. @johnfraseros.bsky.social, please help us advocate for funding for appropriate HVAC in schools.
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'Any decision to limit access to new boosters is a decision to limit access to COVID vaccines. They don’t simply top up protection - they contain protection to genetically distinct strains of the virus that your body won’t easily recognize without a new vaccine.'
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May 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
'Any decision to limit access to new boosters is a decision to limit access to COVID vaccines. They don’t simply top up protection - they contain protection to genetically distinct strains of the virus that your body won’t easily recognize without a new vaccine.'
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The simple metal box that could change the world. This quiet, repairable metal air cleaner is an inexpensive long-term disease prevention tool for public spaces, by @blakemurdoch.bsky.social, @davidelfstrom.bsky.social, Zack Deis healthydebate.ca/2025/04/topi... @healthydebate.bsky.social #COVID19
The simple metal box that could change the world - Healthy Debate
This quiet, repairable metal air cleaner is an inexpensive long-term disease prevention tool for public spaces.
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April 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The simple metal box that could change the world. This quiet, repairable metal air cleaner is an inexpensive long-term disease prevention tool for public spaces, by @blakemurdoch.bsky.social, @davidelfstrom.bsky.social, Zack Deis healthydebate.ca/2025/04/topi... @healthydebate.bsky.social #COVID19
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Note that the US govt is coercing countries into using Starlink, while also threatening non-compliant users with loss of service.
When will Ford clearly and finally end Ontario’s contract with Starlink? I see no reference to this in reports on the budget.
When will Ford clearly and finally end Ontario’s contract with Starlink? I see no reference to this in reports on the budget.
It’s not just Gambia.
We got internal cables, notes and other records that show how U.S. diplomats have intervened on behalf of Starlink in at least four other developing nations. All while the U.S. has withdrawn foreign aid from those same countries.
We got internal cables, notes and other records that show how U.S. diplomats have intervened on behalf of Starlink in at least four other developing nations. All while the U.S. has withdrawn foreign aid from those same countries.
May 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Note that the US govt is coercing countries into using Starlink, while also threatening non-compliant users with loss of service.
When will Ford clearly and finally end Ontario’s contract with Starlink? I see no reference to this in reports on the budget.
When will Ford clearly and finally end Ontario’s contract with Starlink? I see no reference to this in reports on the budget.
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This, this, this!!!!
The 90-95% MMR vax rate ship has sunk, thanks to anti-vaxxers AND pro-infxn public health comms (immunity debt ffs 🤬)
We need #CleanAir NOW!
Ventilation & building, room, personal scale filtration (e.g., MERV13 in HVAC system, portable air cleaners, respirator level masks).
The 90-95% MMR vax rate ship has sunk, thanks to anti-vaxxers AND pro-infxn public health comms (immunity debt ffs 🤬)
We need #CleanAir NOW!
Ventilation & building, room, personal scale filtration (e.g., MERV13 in HVAC system, portable air cleaners, respirator level masks).
If convincing people to get the measles vaccine is ‘slow going’ this calls for a vaccine-PLUS approach.
Kids/Educators/Bus drivers have the right to NOT get infected, especially those at high risk.
Vaccine-PLUS means:
+masks
+air filtration
+ventilation
+more!
globalnews.ca/news/1117224...
Kids/Educators/Bus drivers have the right to NOT get infected, especially those at high risk.
Vaccine-PLUS means:
+masks
+air filtration
+ventilation
+more!
globalnews.ca/news/1117224...
Ontario measles outbreak: Convincing unvaccinated ‘slow going’, top doc says | Globalnews.ca
Since October, Ontario has recorded more than 1,400 measles cases linked to an outbreak that began at a large gathering with guests from Mennonite communities in New Brunswick.
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May 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This, this, this!!!!
The 90-95% MMR vax rate ship has sunk, thanks to anti-vaxxers AND pro-infxn public health comms (immunity debt ffs 🤬)
We need #CleanAir NOW!
Ventilation & building, room, personal scale filtration (e.g., MERV13 in HVAC system, portable air cleaners, respirator level masks).
The 90-95% MMR vax rate ship has sunk, thanks to anti-vaxxers AND pro-infxn public health comms (immunity debt ffs 🤬)
We need #CleanAir NOW!
Ventilation & building, room, personal scale filtration (e.g., MERV13 in HVAC system, portable air cleaners, respirator level masks).
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If convincing people to get the measles vaccine is ‘slow going’ this calls for a vaccine-PLUS approach.
Kids/Educators/Bus drivers have the right to NOT get infected, especially those at high risk.
Vaccine-PLUS means:
+masks
+air filtration
+ventilation
+more!
globalnews.ca/news/1117224...
Kids/Educators/Bus drivers have the right to NOT get infected, especially those at high risk.
Vaccine-PLUS means:
+masks
+air filtration
+ventilation
+more!
globalnews.ca/news/1117224...
Ontario measles outbreak: Convincing unvaccinated ‘slow going’, top doc says | Globalnews.ca
Since October, Ontario has recorded more than 1,400 measles cases linked to an outbreak that began at a large gathering with guests from Mennonite communities in New Brunswick.
globalnews.ca
May 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
If convincing people to get the measles vaccine is ‘slow going’ this calls for a vaccine-PLUS approach.
Kids/Educators/Bus drivers have the right to NOT get infected, especially those at high risk.
Vaccine-PLUS means:
+masks
+air filtration
+ventilation
+more!
globalnews.ca/news/1117224...
Kids/Educators/Bus drivers have the right to NOT get infected, especially those at high risk.
Vaccine-PLUS means:
+masks
+air filtration
+ventilation
+more!
globalnews.ca/news/1117224...
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ICYMI: As kids keep getting sicker, media ignores scientific papers pointing to immune dysregulation and damage after COVID. Instead, parents are urged to “watch out” for unusual waves of RSV, flu, and more, while masks, clean air & COVID go unmentioned.
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Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds
As the press pushes "immunity debt" past the breaking point of believability, are parents ready to wake up to the illness crisis?
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May 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
ICYMI: As kids keep getting sicker, media ignores scientific papers pointing to immune dysregulation and damage after COVID. Instead, parents are urged to “watch out” for unusual waves of RSV, flu, and more, while masks, clean air & COVID go unmentioned.
www.thegauntlet.news/p/kids-keep-...
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Adult in NS has measles. Had only received one dose as a child. Get your booster if you only had 1 measles vaccine dose!
If you're in Halifax, you may want to check and see if you were at the four listed locations on April 26 as you may have been exposed to measles. www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
First case of measles reported in Nova Scotia
An adult in Halifax was diagnosed with measles after returning from travel to the United States.
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May 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Adult in NS has measles. Had only received one dose as a child. Get your booster if you only had 1 measles vaccine dose!
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Reminder: CADTH (now CDA), PHAC, and the Office of the Chief Science Advisor sent evidence summaries on long COVID to multiple government and health employees in every province starting in JULY 2020.
April 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Reminder: CADTH (now CDA), PHAC, and the Office of the Chief Science Advisor sent evidence summaries on long COVID to multiple government and health employees in every province starting in JULY 2020.
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Novavax in peril - a few important things to know:
🔹️They don't want to approve Nova for fall b/c, as the FDA's Makary says, “New products require new clinical studies."
🔹️But it's not a new product; It's a very thoroughly vetted one, periodically reformulated for...
1/5
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🔹️They don't want to approve Nova for fall b/c, as the FDA's Makary says, “New products require new clinical studies."
🔹️But it's not a new product; It's a very thoroughly vetted one, periodically reformulated for...
1/5
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April 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Novavax in peril - a few important things to know:
🔹️They don't want to approve Nova for fall b/c, as the FDA's Makary says, “New products require new clinical studies."
🔹️But it's not a new product; It's a very thoroughly vetted one, periodically reformulated for...
1/5
apnews.com/article/vacc...
🔹️They don't want to approve Nova for fall b/c, as the FDA's Makary says, “New products require new clinical studies."
🔹️But it's not a new product; It's a very thoroughly vetted one, periodically reformulated for...
1/5
apnews.com/article/vacc...
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"Information session for hospitals, primary care and public health units on how Ontario Health is approaching the measles outbreak in Central and West Regions." ( youtu.be/dU66yr1NibE ) H/T: @healthmusicperf.bsky.social
Information Session: Measles
YouTube video by ON Health Central
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April 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"Information session for hospitals, primary care and public health units on how Ontario Health is approaching the measles outbreak in Central and West Regions." ( youtu.be/dU66yr1NibE ) H/T: @healthmusicperf.bsky.social
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NZ: "A group of New Zealand doctors, teachers, academics and principals are urging the Government to improve air quality in schools and childcare centres to reduce Covid-19 and other air-borne illness."
Source: archive.md/2OOFa
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April 29, 2025 at 2:54 AM
NZ: "A group of New Zealand doctors, teachers, academics and principals are urging the Government to improve air quality in schools and childcare centres to reduce Covid-19 and other air-borne illness."
Source: archive.md/2OOFa
Source: archive.md/2OOFa