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I make the Public Health is Dead podcast š Epi MSc., Health Science BSc. Public health & liberation. Black. Immigrant. Chaotic bi. She/her. Opinions my own. š¤
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Thanks for listening!
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This is great to hear, Iām glad it was worth sticking around for!
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Transcript and chapter breakdown is on the website. If you want to know some interesting details about Dr. Bonnie Henryās whereabouts during the SARS outbreak she was in charge of investigatingā¦ you might be surprised. Or not, given COVID. š¤·š¾āāļø
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Awesome! And thank you so much for sharing it š
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Exactly!! We could have a handle on both things and more if public health leaders would acknowledge airborne transmission and act on it.
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āOh those people who Donāt Believe in Science š”š”ā meanwhileā¦ š
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we cannot just put all our eggs in one basket (š) & then act like thereās no recourse when the ethos of vaccination is with the intentionāsupposedlyāof preventing disease. yea vax hesitancy sucks, itās going to take some serious work to reverse, so we MUST prevent disease other ways while itās done.
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weāll forever be in a cycle of catch up to those decimating our safety nets if we donāt have a vision of what could be next. mutual aid is a stopgap, but supporting each other in a future where we can thrive begins with creating new ways of being NOW; maskblocs & clean air clubs are doing just this.
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Measles, H5N1 et. al. are also out here thriving and the barricades are failing my friends. The word you need is āairborneā.
maskbloc.org
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Truly amazing to be in a variety of international cities declaring success over SARS at the same time hospitals and workers were getting crushed by SARS. The chronology was incredible.
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Thanks Mihai!
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And more courage, vision, humility, collaboration, strategy, and principled action from public health leaders. Anything else is exactly what got us here in the first place. Listen for more:
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Listen on for more!
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Workers had been right. But they still stepped up to contain SARS even if they felt lied to and betrayed. In the aftermath, Justice Campbell led the SARS Commission Report, investigating just what went so catastrophically wrong and how to prevent a similar tragedy in the future
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Right before the news conference admitting the SARS outbreak, Dr. Bonnie Henry was in Taipei explaining how Toronto had conquered SARS through good communication. One expert involved said āNobody asked how do you know itās over? Itās just amazing that everyone blew it.ā
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At North York General Hospital in Toronto, there were patients presenting with SARS-like illnesses but hospitals told workers it wasnāt SARS. They found out that it was actually SARS from a press conference weeks later. Dr. Bonnie Henry was the investigative lead for the outbreak
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SARS exploited how unprepared Toronto was to handle the unexpected. Ontario didnāt have a pandemic plan. They didnāt have a good communication system for alerts like the BCCDC had, to warn Dr. Filiatrault. Healthcare workers were under-informed and under-protected. 44 people died
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Because of Dr. Filiatraultās teamās swift actions and WorksafeBC refusing to play games with workersā heath, there was no transmission to any healthcare worker who treated the patient or to any other patients at VGH. Vancouver avoided an outbreak. Toronto on the other handā¦
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Healthcare workers at VGH were trained to automatically go to the highest level of protection. Better safe than sorry! One expert said, āweāre the hereticsā because of how unorthodox that approach was at the time
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WorksafeBC was a crucial player in building a firewall against SARS and insisting on airborne protections because they took this threat to worker safety seriously
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This episode features Dr. Lyne Filiatrault taking us back through the moments when she and her team handled the first SARS case in the city at Vancouver General Hospital in March 2003, averting what could have been a catastrophic outbreak
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A defining aspect of the current administration is that they make clear that they take no role in protecting people but also they are attempting to remove all mechanism by which people protect themselves.
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Catch up on the last episode if you havenāt yet :) www.publichealthisdead.com/episodes
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This is very cool!
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if you are looking for other ways to offer support for those impacted by the Lapu Lapu Day Festival tragedy, there is a form linked here. can be as simple as joining a meal train: vanfilemergency.my.canva.site