#Health

Quebec's vaccination plan being unveiled today will start with 40,000 nursing home residents plus staff. Some 325,000 other health care workers will go second, then 136,000 people in retirement homes.
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Canada has shrunk as a nation. Our minds dulled by relentless propaganda, uninspiring leaders, a lazy media and an absent academic class. Those aren't my words but of a colleague
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I am a "global health" statistician; I love data, appreciate the value of estimates. I have struggled with the lack of data for key questions in many areas of the
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THREAD: You've probably heard of that 2000 @WHO study ranking health care systems in 191 countries. In it, the U.S. placed 37th, behind Oman (8), Colombia (22), Saudi Arabia (26),
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So. I took a photo on the 9th november 2016 which just came up in my memories so I always try to speak a bit about it whenever it’s around
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Whatever the other merits of this proposal, funneling another ~$30B to hospitals is the antithesis of "targeted relief."A dozen hospital chains just presented at #JPM21, two weeks ago.General theme: Financially
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I DO NOT want M4A, because as someone who helps look after an elderly in my family I can tell you from experience that Medicare aint. It barely pays for
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The last installment in an @AP @KHNews yearlong investigation into the U.S. public health system shows the stark toll on the public health workforce. 1/?https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-public-health-michael-brown-kansas-coronavirus-pan
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MoCo isn't getting its fair share of #COVID19 vaccines from MD according to @tomhucker and @albornoz_gabe. They want to know why the most populous places in MD-MoCo, PG and Balt
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Are you frightened of Covid, are you under 65, no health conditions, do not care for some who is and has. Then the statistics say you might have caught HancockWhitty
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She's well spoken.She's humble.She's amazing as an actress.And most importantly she's a beautiful person inside out.That's @deepikapadukone.Wishing you a very happy birthday and a prosperous year to come.#HappyBirthdayDe
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North Dakota had the lowest mask-wearing rate in US in October, according to survey data. States without masks mandates saw sharp spikes. Dakotas also has the highest per capita rate
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It is reasonable to ask: why close restaurants and pubs if there are so few outbreaks associated with those environments? However, this is misreading and misinterpreting the data on outbreaks
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The restrictions placed on the Fraser Health and Vancouver Coastal Health on November 9 are being extended to December 7 and expanded across the province as #COVID19 cases continue to
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Today fam, I’m here to talk about unintended consequences. In particular those around cannabisI will note that I am speaking anecdotally but would like to talk about something I’ve come
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OK, so, seen many people sharing this image online today, often supportively.YMMV of course, but based on my own understanding, rather than being insightful or 'right on', this is completely
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