J. Fischer
@jason-fischer.bsky.social
Head of Emergency Medicine @ SickKids TO: Building Tomorrow with Imagination, Science & Fun.
“there was over 1,000 RSV hospitalizations that were averted and over 100 RSV ICU admissions”
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Quebec’s RSV immunization program greatly lowered infant hospitalizations, study says
The study found the program was more than 85% effective in reducing infant hospitalizations, emergency-room consultations and ICU admissions
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August 5, 2025 at 3:32 AM
“there was over 1,000 RSV hospitalizations that were averted and over 100 RSV ICU admissions”
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Ran into a great Canadian at the rink the other day.
March 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Ran into a great Canadian at the rink the other day.
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Hundreds of Thousands Will Die: The writer, surgeon, and former #USAID administrator Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world. www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-... via @newyorker.com @agawande.bsky.social #GlobalHealth
Hundreds of Thousands Will Die
The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. senior official Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world.
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March 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Hundreds of Thousands Will Die: The writer, surgeon, and former #USAID administrator Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world. www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-... via @newyorker.com @agawande.bsky.social #GlobalHealth
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Krugman nails it.
“…efforts to find some kind of economic justification for Trump’s Canada-hatred have the feeling of desperate efforts…”
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“…efforts to find some kind of economic justification for Trump’s Canada-hatred have the feeling of desperate efforts…”
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Trump Hates Canada for its Decency
The president lacks basic decency, and loathes people who do
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March 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Krugman nails it.
“…efforts to find some kind of economic justification for Trump’s Canada-hatred have the feeling of desperate efforts…”
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“…efforts to find some kind of economic justification for Trump’s Canada-hatred have the feeling of desperate efforts…”
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Five years after the pandemic began, here's the harsh reality: The #COVID19 Alarmists Were Closer to the Truth Than Anyone Else, by @dwallacewells.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/o... via @nytopinion.nytimes.com @jillianhortonmd.bsky.social
Opinion | The Fifth Anniversary of the Covid Pandemic Reveals New Lessons
Five years since a novel virus spread everywhere, it’s hard to remember what the beginning was like.
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February 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Five years after the pandemic began, here's the harsh reality: The #COVID19 Alarmists Were Closer to the Truth Than Anyone Else, by @dwallacewells.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/o... via @nytopinion.nytimes.com @jillianhortonmd.bsky.social
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RFK at his confirmation hearing: “I am not anti-vaccine”
After RFK confirmed as HHS head:
- CDC flu vaccine campaign pulled
- Childhood vaccine schedule reviewed
- Federal funding to schools with COVID vaccine mandates withdrawn
- Meeting to update flu vaccines cancelled
After RFK confirmed as HHS head:
- CDC flu vaccine campaign pulled
- Childhood vaccine schedule reviewed
- Federal funding to schools with COVID vaccine mandates withdrawn
- Meeting to update flu vaccines cancelled
February 27, 2025 at 2:11 AM
RFK at his confirmation hearing: “I am not anti-vaccine”
After RFK confirmed as HHS head:
- CDC flu vaccine campaign pulled
- Childhood vaccine schedule reviewed
- Federal funding to schools with COVID vaccine mandates withdrawn
- Meeting to update flu vaccines cancelled
After RFK confirmed as HHS head:
- CDC flu vaccine campaign pulled
- Childhood vaccine schedule reviewed
- Federal funding to schools with COVID vaccine mandates withdrawn
- Meeting to update flu vaccines cancelled
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The Dutch and Danes have demonstrated that every citizen can have a family doctor. Canada needs to learn from them to fix #PrimaryCare, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: The Dutch and Danes have much to teach Canada about better health care
The question is whether Canada will act on all those lessons around providing primary care to every citizen
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February 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The Dutch and Danes have demonstrated that every citizen can have a family doctor. Canada needs to learn from them to fix #PrimaryCare, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
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KITZBÜHEL CHAMPION JACK CRAWFORD
It’s not every day you get a chance to go up a gondola in the Austrian Alps with the winner of Kitzbuhel.
🇨🇦 Jack Crawford joined us today. About being the Kitz champ. And looking ahead to Worlds.
Our conversation: youtu.be/d-Jtz7xv9bs?...
It’s not every day you get a chance to go up a gondola in the Austrian Alps with the winner of Kitzbuhel.
🇨🇦 Jack Crawford joined us today. About being the Kitz champ. And looking ahead to Worlds.
Our conversation: youtu.be/d-Jtz7xv9bs?...
Kitzbühel Champion Jack Crawford Sets Sights on Alpine Worlds| #CBCSports
YouTube video by CBC Sports
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February 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
KITZBÜHEL CHAMPION JACK CRAWFORD
It’s not every day you get a chance to go up a gondola in the Austrian Alps with the winner of Kitzbuhel.
🇨🇦 Jack Crawford joined us today. About being the Kitz champ. And looking ahead to Worlds.
Our conversation: youtu.be/d-Jtz7xv9bs?...
It’s not every day you get a chance to go up a gondola in the Austrian Alps with the winner of Kitzbuhel.
🇨🇦 Jack Crawford joined us today. About being the Kitz champ. And looking ahead to Worlds.
Our conversation: youtu.be/d-Jtz7xv9bs?...
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Pediatricians Try New Tactics to Win Over Vaccine Skeptics. As trust in medicine declines and vaccine hesitancy spreads, doctors are changing how they talk about lifesaving childhood shots, by Melinda Wenner Moyer www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/w... via @nytimes.com #vaccination #scicomm #infodemic
Pediatricians Try New Tactics to Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
As trust in medicine declines and vaccine hesitancy spreads, doctors are changing how they talk about lifesaving childhood shots.
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January 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Pediatricians Try New Tactics to Win Over Vaccine Skeptics. As trust in medicine declines and vaccine hesitancy spreads, doctors are changing how they talk about lifesaving childhood shots, by Melinda Wenner Moyer www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/w... via @nytimes.com #vaccination #scicomm #infodemic
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Ontario pledges $1.8-billion to to ensure every resident has access to a family doctor or nurse practitioner as province prepares to go to the polls, by @kellygrant1.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #onpoli
Ontario pledges $1.8-billion to get more residents access to family doctors or nurse practitioners
The goal of the plan is to attach two million more Ontarians to interdisciplinary health teams that include family doctors and other health professionals
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January 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Ontario pledges $1.8-billion to to ensure every resident has access to a family doctor or nurse practitioner as province prepares to go to the polls, by @kellygrant1.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #onpoli
For January 27, 2025:
“The greatest crimes are committed not by those who act alone, but by those who follow orders without question.”
Consider Phlebas
The Culture Series
By Iain M Banks
#booksky
“The greatest crimes are committed not by those who act alone, but by those who follow orders without question.”
Consider Phlebas
The Culture Series
By Iain M Banks
#booksky
January 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
For January 27, 2025:
“The greatest crimes are committed not by those who act alone, but by those who follow orders without question.”
Consider Phlebas
The Culture Series
By Iain M Banks
#booksky
“The greatest crimes are committed not by those who act alone, but by those who follow orders without question.”
Consider Phlebas
The Culture Series
By Iain M Banks
#booksky
“SickKids created the emergency radiology division to reduce delays and improve communication among teams during the overnight hours.”
#sickkids
#sickkids
This new team is on the night shift at SickKids — and it has transformed patient care
The emergency radiology division helps Toronto SickKids hospital’s medical teams get diagnostic imaging reports quickly, with the goal of speeding up care.
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January 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
“SickKids created the emergency radiology division to reduce delays and improve communication among teams during the overnight hours.”
#sickkids
#sickkids
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This new team is on the night shift at SickKids — and it has transformed patient care. The emergency radiology division helps medical teams get quick access to diagnostic imaging reports, with the goal of speeding up care, by Megan Ogilvie www.thestar.com/news/gta/thi... via @thestar.com
This new team is on the night shift at SickKids — and it has transformed patient care
The emergency radiology division helps Toronto SickKids hospital’s medical teams get diagnostic imaging reports quickly, with the goal of speeding up care.
www.thestar.com
January 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This new team is on the night shift at SickKids — and it has transformed patient care. The emergency radiology division helps medical teams get quick access to diagnostic imaging reports, with the goal of speeding up care, by Megan Ogilvie www.thestar.com/news/gta/thi... via @thestar.com
For January 20, 2025:
“If you change ownership of the institutions then you can change ownership of the facts, you can alter the structure of belief, what is agreed upon, that is what they are doing.”
The Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
2023 Booker Prize
#booksky
“If you change ownership of the institutions then you can change ownership of the facts, you can alter the structure of belief, what is agreed upon, that is what they are doing.”
The Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
2023 Booker Prize
#booksky
January 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
For January 20, 2025:
“If you change ownership of the institutions then you can change ownership of the facts, you can alter the structure of belief, what is agreed upon, that is what they are doing.”
The Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
2023 Booker Prize
#booksky
“If you change ownership of the institutions then you can change ownership of the facts, you can alter the structure of belief, what is agreed upon, that is what they are doing.”
The Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
2023 Booker Prize
#booksky
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Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967
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January 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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“Hallway medicine.” “Waiting room medicine.” Low dignity care.
November 28, 2024 at 2:35 AM
“Hallway medicine.” “Waiting room medicine.” Low dignity care.
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Opinion - Canada’s worrying decline in vaccination rates: Childhood vaccination rates appear to be falling at the same time that measles is making a worldwide comeback
Canada’s worrying decline in vaccination rates
Childhood vaccination rates appear to be falling at the same time that measles is making a worldwide comeback
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November 26, 2024 at 11:51 AM
Opinion - Canada’s worrying decline in vaccination rates: Childhood vaccination rates appear to be falling at the same time that measles is making a worldwide comeback
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MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE
This cheeky little intracellular bacteria seems to be up to mischief with kids in the USA at the moment
A quick thread on this bug, what's going on, and what to do (or not do!) about it
#IDSky #PedSky #PedsIDSky 🧪
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This cheeky little intracellular bacteria seems to be up to mischief with kids in the USA at the moment
A quick thread on this bug, what's going on, and what to do (or not do!) about it
#IDSky #PedSky #PedsIDSky 🧪
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November 12, 2024 at 1:20 PM
MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE
This cheeky little intracellular bacteria seems to be up to mischief with kids in the USA at the moment
A quick thread on this bug, what's going on, and what to do (or not do!) about it
#IDSky #PedSky #PedsIDSky 🧪
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This cheeky little intracellular bacteria seems to be up to mischief with kids in the USA at the moment
A quick thread on this bug, what's going on, and what to do (or not do!) about it
#IDSky #PedSky #PedsIDSky 🧪
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