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@enenbee @med -mastodon.com, Head of Melbourne School of Population & Global Health @unimelbMSPGH "Inspiring Steminist", Surgeon, Clinical Epidemiologist, she/her

Toronto, Ontario

Joined August 2010

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@enenbee

Nancy Baxter MD PhD

6 years

To honor the women who fought for professional respect and made my career possible, I am posting an archival #NYerORCoverChallenge photo from @WCHospital of an all woman OR in the 1940s. Now we must make the future equitable and inclusive for all surgeons @UofTSurgery

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

Remember normalizing ‘everyone will get Omicron’ is politics not public health

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

Why are the only options "pushing through" or "locking down" Why can't we provide high quality well fitted masks for free? Why can't we focus on clean safe indoor air? Why can't we provide free rapid antigent tests? Why can't use public health measures to reduce spread?

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

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When I was 4 years old my father who was a park ranger, had to shoot a bear for harassing campers. I was both terrified for my father and horrified that the bear had to die. This is not kindness. Training bears to see humans as a food source is a death sentence. DO NOT DO THIS

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

Australia, we have officially bet the farm on Omicron being considerably milder than all previous variants.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

Mask mandates will soon be gone. So let's talk about mask etiquette. We all have different views of risk and need to respect that. Many people will still be wearing masks - they remain recommended and are effective. Shaming or pressuring these folks to take them off is wrong.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

5 years

I watched patients die of AIDS in hospital wards in the 1990s. Now I treat benign conditions in people with HIV who are living their lives fully. IMHO this is the absolutely the most incredible public health achievement of my lifetime

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

My beautiful people of Australia We are have now surpassed the US in terms of % of the population vaccinated with at least 1 dose. And we haven't lost steam. We are on our way to be among the most vaccinated places on earth. And to a much better year in 2022!!

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

Let me be crystal clear. Nicola Spurrier is not the bad guy here.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

"I don't want it to ever be said that we didn't throw everything at this" Said after 8 weeks of not throwing everything at this. SMH

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

I am totally stanning on Dr Dan Suan right now @DanSuan2 thanks for making this fantastic video. Well worth watching and hopefully will make a difference in how COVID spreads over Christmas

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Hi Sydney, I am sorry, but we have a problem. We are sleepwalking into an Omicron disaster in January if we do not take immediate and effective action to limit the spread of Omicron before...

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

Remember masks are effective against any variant - they are protections not restrictions and need to be part of living with COVID if we want to live well with COVID

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

Caring about #LongCovid means caring about transmission.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

Not a cold Not the flu Numbers on the rise You know what to do

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

4 years

51 Italian doctors dead. This is reality. And anyone who thinks their system is better or won’t be affected is an idiot. And I’m talking to you Australia and Canada. The #1 priority of every government and hospital system must be getting adequate personal protective equipment.

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Ana Cabrera

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JUST IN: 51 Italian doctors who tested positive for #coronavirus have died - Italian Association of Doctors

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

6 years

Just got schooled on my tone at a department meeting this am. Please people, stop telling women they sound angry & too aggressive. Sound familiar to anyone? Don’t tell me we should wait for the changes that everyone is committed to. I will believe it when I see it! @UofTSurgery

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

Today I wanted to give a shout out to one of the best people on this bird, Prof Esterman who is here everyday telling us what is happening with COVID in Australia and around the world. We see you and appreciate your wisdom and perseverance @profesterman

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

5 years

I am filling out my yearly activity report. They ask me to list the accomplishments I am most proud of this year. I really really want to list teaching my cat to High 5. But I can’t So I wanted to make sure someone was aware... What are u proud of that u can’t list?

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

This person lining up for COVID testing in the ACT wearing full Avocado Oodie is 💯 my hero this morning.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

@MarylouiseMcla1 So very sorry to hear this Mary-Louise Thank you for all the time you have spent over the past 2 years advocating and educating. You are truly the best of the best.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

There is a lot of COVID out there right now folks so let's all be careful this weekend. 🤞🤞we are reaching the peak soon in NSW, Victoria, and ACT so if you can put something off for 2-3 weeks hopefully case numbers will be down and it will be safer.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

4 years

Could we vote for Jacinda to rule the world?

@the_female_lead

The Female Lead

@the_female_lead

4 years

"Economic growth accompanied by worsening social outcomes is not success, it is failure" Jacinda Ardern

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

This is a tweet I just can’t get past There are over 300 Australians dying every week of COVID wIth no signs the pace is slowing. When will we stop looking away? The pandemic is expanding right now in 🇦🇺 and around the world. Please do what u can to reduce transmission. 😷😷

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There have now been over 10,000 COVID-19 deaths recorded in Australia since the start of the pandemic. Current rate is 1,000 every 3 weeks.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

Alex what is gaslighting for 500 points

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Dr Greg Kelly

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

The numbers this morning are confronting and the lack of capacity for testing is making everyone very anxious. We need to collectively get through the Omicron wave and then move forward differently A 🧵

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

We are literally only weeks away from having a vaccination rate high enough to open without overwhelming the health care system. How many unnecessary deaths are you OK with just so that we can have people over for a visit 2 weeks sooner?

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

Since Spotify has decided to stick with Joe Rogan I have decided to stick with Neil Young and cancel my subscription. But I need suggestions - what music streaming platform I should switch to?

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Spotify Sticks With Joe Rogan After Neil Young Anti-Vax Challenge

After the rock legend said he would drop the platform if it continued to host Joe Rogan's podcast, his music is being removed.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

I really feel like crying right now and I don't think I am alone Please send cute pictures of pets, kids, or anything else you think could cheer us up.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

After watching the Victorian press conference today, I nearly cried. @VictorianCHO is making hard decisions and doesn't take them lightly. I certainly wouldn't want to be in his shoes right now. The questions he was asked today were simply cruel and accomplished nothing.

@DrPieterPeach

Pieter Peach (@[email protected])

3 years

Thoughtful response to concerns about the mental health impacts of restrictions on our youth. Absolutely a concern, but the alternative to not controlling this quickly however will be much worse. The choice is between a bad short duration option and a worse longer duration option

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

Take every dose of pfizer in the state of NSW and bring it to Fairfield. Set up 24 hour pop up clinics and get everyone in that community vaccinated. That will do more to protect Sydney and get out of lockdown than targeting Fairfield for greater restrictions and policing

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

So happy to see my mother again after 2.5 challenging years. We make a choice when we do / do not take simple measures to protect the most vulnerable amongst us. Policy makers included.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

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For any Canadian who missed the memo 🇺🇸 is international travel 🇺🇸 is international travel 🇺🇸 is international travel 🇺🇸 is international travel 🇺🇸 is international travel 🇺🇸 is international travel 🇺🇸 is international travel 🇺🇸 is international travel 🇺🇸 is international

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

Nancy Baxter, real vaccine zealot I think it has a nice ring to it

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

Sorry - my bad. Turns out there is a good reason to not subsidise Rapid Antigen Tests, afterall "you can't make everything free". Seems "everything" means providing tools for people to identify that they have COVID to protect the community and control the pandemic. No biggie

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

Limiting access to Rapid Antigen Tests to the rich is not just unethical it is also penny wise, pound foolish. Increasing the spread of Omicron will cost us all.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

That's Professor Doom MD PhD thanks very much.

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@enenbee @BeattieNgiare Get off our Television screens.. Your Alarmist commentary is old.. Go back to Canada Miss Doom.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

Maybe it's just me but generally I worry more about human rights than complications over uniforms.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

One of the most important pieces of research I have ever done has been published in @JAMASurgery today. @fdossa @AndreaSimpsonMD @danzeltzer and Rinku Sutradhar and I looked at gender bias in referrals to surgeons. Spoiler alert: men refer to men

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

Hey Jack, Darcy, and Wesley Ever thought of a career in Public Health, Epidemiology, or Biostatistics? Want to come to @unimelbMSPGH for a visit when things open up? We would love to have you!!

@covidbaseau

CovidBaseAU 🦠📊🇦🇺

3 years

@NSWHealth Misleading. 74.00% of NSW has received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, 54.67% are fully vaccinated. 88.6% of those 16+ have had at least 1 dose. You do not specify that it is of those 16+ anywhere in the tweet.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

Reducing protections from COVID transmission at the workplace and schools sets us up for disruptive future waves Like the frog in the pot of water set to boil, changes will be implemented when the impact is less obvious. Then in the next wave when we need them, they will be gone

@10NewsFirst

10 News First

2 years

The mandatory COVID-19 self-isolation period will be reduced from 7 to 5 days this Friday. The decision is being challenged by a number of health experts. 10 News First: Breakfast speaks to epidemiologist Professor Nancy Baxter | @lachlan_kennedy @enenbee

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

I guess that’s good advice when you are sleepwalking into a disaster

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

5 years

Some major scrub cap envy today in the OR. @RyanGosling you are making the operating room a more welcoming place for women surgeons!

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

I just can't express how much I love this.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

Limiting access to Rapid Antigen Tests to the rich is not just unethical it is also penny wise, pound foolish. Increasing the spread of Omicron will cost us all.

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Anita

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WOW OK, I recommended one place - ONE - that I ordered some RAT from who hadn't raised prices when I ordered yesterday only to find out they had today. I cannot do a thread-o of in-stock RATs; I can't in good conscience recommend ANYONE pay $20 per test. Fuck greed.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

Timely reminder that you have over a 4 fold increased risk of dying if you are admitted to hospital for a hip fracture with COVID Changing definitions of COVID hospitalization is a marketing exercise that won't help a single patient or health care worker

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

You need a positive test to be eligible for potentially life-saving anti-viral medication. I guess we’ve decided only people that can afford RAT tests deserve to have access. Not something to be proud of.

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ABC News

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As COVID surges, the government is ending the free RAT test for vulnerable Australians program

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

Unless your plans for tonight were to stay at home watching the fireworks on TV, please spare a thought for our healthcare workers. Going out on New Year's Eve is over-rated and overpriced at the best of times. Tonight the price will be very very high indeed

@chrischirp

Prof. Christina Pagel

3 years

And yes - cases ARE feeding into rapid rises in hospital admissions. I said we should expect increases after Xmas and that is what we are seeing. Admissions are rising in *all* age groups. Again, these admissions are from infections pre-xmas & just after Omicron dominant 6/18

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

4 years

Just checking that everyone knows the US could have decided to adopt the WHO approved test at any point since it was approved in January. Even if it meant someone had to admit the decision to make your own was a mistake. You know that, right?

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

I have been waiting for data on the impact of repeated COVID-19 infections. I was hoping the results would be better but looks like being infected multiple times increases your risk of serious short and long-term outcomes. Do what you can to reduce transmission folks

@GANyborg

Gunhild Alvik Nyborg, MD, PhD, BSc

2 years

For all those who still believe herd immunity as a concept applies to SARS-CoV-2: It doesn't. We'll be infected again and again, and the data now tell us that the risk of serious long-term effects increases with each infection. Govts need to re-think & find a new & better plan 1/

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

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The move to a ‘business-as-usual’ pandemic leaves us unnecessarily vulnerable and will ultimately disrupt business even more’ @Globalbiosec and I discuss the political motivation for recent changes in isolation rules in @ConversationEDU

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Cutting COVID isolation and mask mandates will mean more damage to business and health in the long...

With the goal of ‘business as usual’, politicians will continue to reduce COVID protections without immediate consequence while transmission is low. But then the next wave will come.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

In case anyone was unclear “ditch the mask’ as ‘smiles are back’ are not public health approved messages.

@CrabbBrendan

Prof Brendan Crabb

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I do understand wrestling with mask mandates in various settings, & for different mask strategies in times of lower transmission vs times of higher threat. But in the midst of a pandemic as we still are, reducing requirement for their use is nothing to celebrate. 1/

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

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"Publicly shaming survivors for their past is as low as you can possibly go." YUP

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

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Well and truly done

@TracyWesterman

Dr Tracy Westerman AM

@TracyWesterman

2 years

I think when you have 58 COVID deaths in one day across just 2 states, the “Omicron is mild” argument is pretty well done.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

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I don't get everything right, but it was hard not to see that Omicron was going to be a problem. Here is my interview with Breakfast Television on Dec 16th, the day after restrictions were further relaxed in NSW. We saw it coming.

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Experts concerned about rules easing as Omicron cases climb

Trusted and independent source of local, national and world news. In-depth analysis, business, sport, weather and more.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

1 in 10 people who have EVER been diagnosed with COVID in Australia were diagnosed in the past 24 hours. The next few weeks will be tough but we will get through this Prevent infection when you can Prepare for what will happen if you get infected Take care of yourself if you do

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

Perhaps think of this like smoking. Some people smoke - it is an addictive carcinogenic substance we allow to be legally sold - but smokers that I know respect requests not to smoke in someone else's house. So wearing masks should be no different

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

The past few days have reminded me of the saying ‘if wishes were horses beggars would ride’ Making wishful thinking policy will lead to an exceptional number of people sick and hospitals overwhelmed for the foreseeable future

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

The time to prevent another lockdown is now. Right now.

@MarylouiseMcla1

Mary-Louise McLaws

@MarylouiseMcla1

3 years

I calculate just 30-35% of Australians have symptomatic protection from Omicron based on UK study & Australian data. Boosters 3 months after 2nd dose & free rapid antigen tests are essential. Everybody can reduce spread with masks & avoiding indoor crowds.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

Makes a lot of sense

@westaustralian

The West Australian

@westaustralian

2 years

CONFIRMED: Mark McGowan is set to announce the plan to fully reopen WA’s border to quarantine-free travel on February 5 will be delayed, The West Australian has confirmed.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

Taking mask mandates off the table is just bananas. Queensland has over 1,000 people in hospital and an outbreak that is continuing to grow. What’s it going to take? A complete collapse of the healthcare system??

@profesterman

Professor Adrian Esterman

2 years

Queensland has 11,687 cases and 10 deaths. The Reff is up from 1.21 to 1.27, a 12-day doubling time. Hospitalisations and ICU admissions are unchanged at 1,034 and 21.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

Finally got my RATs today. They were ‘in stock’ when I ordered them on Dec 27. Better late than never I guess🤷‍♀️

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

Only about 1/3 of the Ukrainian population is fully vaccinated and less than 2% boosted. Vaccine hesitancy in the Ukraine has been fueled in part by - you guessed it - Russian propaganda campaigns against Western vaccines. Wars kill. Disinformation kills. A lot to answer for

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

I can't understand why a private consulting company was brought in to give the government bad advice when there were experts in the Department of Health at their disposal + world class public health professionals and academics who likely would have given great advice for free

@Raf_Epstein

Raf Epstein

3 years

"PM was forced to intervene on vaccine after months of inaction" in 2020 McKinsey had advised a "sit and wait" approach Companies warned Aust Govt last year .. "there would be no vaccine queue to join" Reporting from former Howard Govt health adviser

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

4 years

Anybody else inexplicably pleased that Fauci has a messy desk?

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

Today was too much honestly. Here Brad discusses how pleased OR staff in NSW were to be given brief training in ICU care "I know when I spoke to some of those staff they were really happy they had finally had an opportunity to find out what happens in other parts of the hospital"

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

Australia, we need mask mandates now

@EricTopol

Eric Topol

2 years

A new BA.5 variant report from Portugal indicates higher rate of hospitalization (>3-fold) than BA.2, post-vaccination and booster, along with significantly increased risk of reinfection. VE vs hospitalization reduced from 93% (BA.2) to 77% (BA.5)

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

The expected result of removing virtually all protections when community transmission is high is an ongoing strain on our emergency departments. If this is how we live with COVID, the system needs more resources. Silencing healthcare workers doesn't change the fundamentals.

@rpcounat

Rachael C 💛💛💛

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@drvyom It's beyond f*cked. The access block is two wards full of patients bunked in the ED all at once permanently. Ambulances can't even get in the door it is so clogged. Ambulance response times as a result are the worst they have ever been.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

What about if you are not wearing a mask and someone asks you to wear one? There are lots of reasons why someone might want you to, and they may not want to go through their medical history just to get you to put on a mask. So the kind thing to do is just to put on the mask

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

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@kazza264 @DamianTheAussie No and this narrative is really unhelpful. Even if everyone getting Omicron is inevitable (and if people get boosted it is most certainly not) if everyone gets Omicron at the same time it will be very bad. We all need to do what we can to slow the spread

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

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Happy New Year to everyone on this bird. Here’s to sticking a fork in 2021. I’m proud of everyone for doing their best to just get through it.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

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If you need a laugh today, here it is You are welcome

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

I think I can speak for us all when I say we are tired and the last thing any of us needs is a variant that seems to have been named after an Avengers character.

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What is the Deltacron variant of Covid and where has it been found?

Another new coronavirus variant has been identified, this one containing elements of Delta and Omicron

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

Cats! Pandemics! Understandable analogies! Outstanding 🧵 Monkey Pox is in our communities. Time to stop “othering” any part of our community for contracting an infectious disease. It’s ridiculous, harmful, and limits our ability to control the disease.

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Jorts (and Jean)

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I learned some things about feline poxvirus as an EXAMPLE to talk about a similar virus. If a cat gets a catpox, it can spread to cat people. If there’s an outbreak & only cat folks can be tested, it will seem like ONLY cats or cat people get it. Cats start getting dirty looks.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

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Tell me again how personal responsibility will get us through this phase

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Rapid antigen tests double in price in Australia amid concerns of price-gouging

Reports cost of RAT kits soaring as federal government considers calling in consumer watchdog

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

Let's also talk about what mask to wear if, like me, you will continue wearing masks in public indoor spaces Any mask protects more than none, but since not everyone will be wearing them you need get a well fitted, high quality mask. So a P2 or N95 mask.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

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Grace Tame has no obligation to make anyone feel better about themselves Grace Tame has no obligation to provide window dressing for people If you want @TamePunk to smile then take some real steps to addressing sexual harassment and assault

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Young women like Grace Tame weren’t socialised to shut up when authority figures speak – and it...

Australians like to think of ourselves as rebels but culturally we love rules, and aren’t always kind to rule-breakers

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

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Officials: Out of an abundance of caution we will be testing all Chinese travellers Public Health: What about the sub-variant XBB.1.5 that is already rapidly spreading globally? Officials: XBB.1.5 was initially found in the USA so fits within our living with COVID strategy

@TRyanGregory

T. Ryan Gregory

2 years

Going to say it again. The XBB.1.5 variant (Kraken) that is absolutely rocketing in the USA and spreading globally, which has both major immune escape and high ACE2 binding, *evolved in New York*. Not in China. In. The. USA.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

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"Long-COVID will be the enduring, major public health complication that we failed to address in a timely and aggressive manner. It's not too late to invest in understanding and combating it"

@EricTopol

Eric Topol

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I wrote about where we stand with #LongCovid after a cluster of new studies @latimes

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

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More than 1 in 3 people in federally funded aged care facilities are still waiting for their boosters. Too bad Omicron didn't take a holiday

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

This is important folks. Outside is safer but transmissions are happening outdoors.

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Anna Davidson | OzSAGE | #CovidisAirborne

3 years

I hate to break this to you but... If you are meeting people (you don't live with) outside & are in close proximity (think less than 2 m) you need to be in a good quality mask Outdoor transmission events with people in close proximity (1.5m) are on the rise.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

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No woman valedictorian @uoftmedicine for 12 years when 50% of students are women. Let's do the math - there is a 0.02% chance this would happen randomly. It's time to stop challenging anyone who identifies gender bias - it's staring us in the face. It's time to change the system

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Andreas Laupacis

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5 years

"If medical schools are 50-50, why are valedictorians so often men?" via @SilverSarah92 @UofTDoMChair

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

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Sad news to share. My sweet boy Rocky passed away today. Always up for fun with me, he was very shy - my friends thought he was a ghost as he would hide when they came by. I was very glad during the pandemic that some of you were able to appreciate him in his all goofball glory

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

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@anitajkumarMD @JetBlue My question is why would the radiologist keep talking? If I knew there was a more qualified physician available, the only thing I would be saying is "Doctor, let me know if you need help".

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

All I want for Xmas is my bivalent booster

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Dr. Tom Frieden

2 years

New CDC data show that an Omicron booster bolsters protection against severe Covid, reducing the risk of hospitalization by half or more.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

The good news is we have likely reached the peak of the curve The bad news is that a lot of people are still going to get COVID and get sick from COVID on the right side of the curve It ain’t over til it’s over. Stay safe everyone and get your booster.

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Richard from Sydney

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2 years

Now we have likely hit peak hospitalisation for our 1st true wave in NSW - keep in mind that at ~40% or so of the people who will catch COVID in this wave have not yet done so. - and (based on Delta) 1/2 the people who will die are still with us now So be careful out there

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

If you've made it to the end, thanks for that We can get through this. Won't be easy but with us all doing our part we will!

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

A very sobering read "there has been no central coordination to implement COVID-safe wards by NSW Health. No guidelines, no standardisation to share COVID patients equitably across all of Sydney’s hospitals, and apparently no ministerial oversight."

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The serious shortfalls in our COVID response give me no confidence our hospitals will cope

The government needs to stop backslapping about vaccination rates and gear up properly for COVID.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

Truth

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

I'll be here until the lights go out, but seems that might be as soon as today. Now trying to find folks on mastodon. Find me at @enenbee @med -mastodon.com Fingers crossed I wake up and you are all still here. If not I'll miss you. Be good and reduce your risk when you can!

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

Remember masks work for any sub-variant. With a ton of COVID still out there from the current wave + XBB.1.5 starting to circulate, masking up is the smart choice!

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Trisha Greenhalgh

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2 years

MASKS are back (=> they’re trending on social media and I’m getting hate mail). A short thread. See my pinned tweet for a longer thread with lots of peer-reviewed articles.🧵 1/

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

4 years

Wasting tests on rich people who are worried when you can't even test everyone admitted to hospital or every health care worker is not just an indictment of the US healthcare system. Ultimately, it will end up killing the rich as well as the poor

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18 Pictures That Show The Huge Difference Between Famous And Normal People During The Coronavirus...

Famous people: they're NOT just like us.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

1 year

Many aged care residents are > 6 months from their last vaccine dose. They still have protection but would be better off if they had a bivalent booster. Why not protect those most at risk from COVID now instead of keeping the vaccine in the fridge?

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Deaths from Covid in Australian aged care pass 5,000 after monthly fatalities double in January

Department of Health says significant jump to 597 deaths from 22 December to 25 January was partially influenced by a change in reporting methodology

www.theguardian.com

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

4 years

Being told "you look tired" at the beginning of a zoom meeting by a random guy you have never met. He thought he was breaking the ice. Pro tip - this is not a good way to break the ice

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

Seriously - let’s get real about actually managing the risk of COVID. We can’t pretend it’s 2019 - if we do we will just have more disease, disability, death, and disruption than we need to. Can we please stop the own goals and try to get better at how we live with the virus?

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Dr Greg Kelly

2 years

"Science has defanged Covid, time to get on with our lives" This, by usually reasonable Devi Sridhar, is a huge worry because it is almost entirely disconnected from the current reality that the pandemic is far from over and buys into a HUGE fallacy 🧵

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

I was thinking about this poem today so decided to repost People with pre-existing medical conditions are people. And if you need more reason than that to care about them, by people I mean your parents, your kids, your neighbours, your cousins, and sometimes even you

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Plague Poems

3 years

Apparently it is encouraging news really encouraging news that most of the deaths (over 75% of them) are occurring in people like my mother my brother-in-law my friend my cousin the people who were unwell to begin with though it is doubtful they find that news very encouraging.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

2 years

@Doctor__Anita This really concerns me. We need to start teaching people about mask etiquette. Even if not mandated, if someone requests you wear one the right thing to do is to put your mask on, no questions asked. Particularly if they are being paid by you!!

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

I can't imagine a scrub nurse from my previous hospital would have been "happy" about providing crisis coverage in the ICU. Willing? Absolutely. Happy? Not so much. BTW, this was in response to a question about possibly needing field hospitals in Sydney Not reassuring.

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

Who's with us?

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Michelle Sargent

3 years

@enenbee @cousincat @kazza264 @DamianTheAussie I really miss Dr Young... 😩

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

3 years

Gotta say, I am totally fangirling on @DrJaneMunro right now. WELL DONE at the press conference today Jane!! Vaccinate, Ventilate, Masks - let's work together to keep our kids safe and in school

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Nancy Baxter MD PhD

6 years

@laxswamy @choo_ek Right on - who is your male supervisor? Can I send him a message saying I just wish you were an itsy bitsy more feminist?

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