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Reporter. I cover science, technology and the environment for the Toronto Star.

Toronto, Ontario
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Joined February 2009
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  1. 15 hours ago

    Forced to stay home with their abusers, Canadian victims of domestic violence must ‘choose between two pandemics’. By ⁦⁩

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  2. Apr 20

    (In congregate settings I mean)

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  3. Apr 20

    Test and you will find.

    BREAKING: Eight staff and 60 inmates from OCI have tested positive for COVID-19.
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  4. Apr 20

    Steini Brown, the dean of , just answered a question about COVID-19 and Ontario postal codes/geography by saying that the current community spread phase of the outbreak is disproportionately affecting low-income neighbourhoods, as it is in the U.S.

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  5. Apr 20

    The modelling briefing is beginning soon. In the broader community, projections are now better than the best case scenarios previously presented, suggesting the public health measures -- the hardships we've all lived with for the past several weeks -- are working.

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  6. Apr 20

    Ontario modelling suggests the COVID-19 epidemic has peaked in broader community and "is coming under control," but seems to be growing in long-term care and other congregate settings. and I wrote about Ontario's "two epidemics" recently:

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  7. Apr 19

    “While the province has ordered workers at seniors’ homes to choose a single workplace to limit the virus’ spread, a similar directive — or specific commitments for supplying personal protective gear — has yet to come for PSWs in the disability sector.”

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    Apr 19

    A TALE OF 2 -19 EPIDEMICS IN CANADA. The 's + show how while we've done well in addressing the issue of community spread, we need to catch up to the runaway train costing countless lives across Canada's Care Homes.

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  9. Apr 19

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    Over 350 cases in (15% of provincial total) have been linked to an outbreak in a meat-packing plant in High River, a small town 60 km south of Calgary.
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  10. Apr 19

    That’s three standard goose, not your newfangled mini goose

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  11. Retweeted
    Apr 18

    Newfoundlanders are known for dropping and adding our H’s but this Covid-19 message in downtown St. John’s will lift you right hup

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    Apr 17

    If you need emergency care, and fear keeps you from seeking help, COVID has harmed you just as surely as those whom it has infected. Canada’s ERs are safe and ready to care for you. Don’t hesitate to seek help when you need it, COVID or not. Please.

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    Apr 18

    A new preprint with and on the epidemiology of COVID in Ontario LTCF:

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    Apr 17

    This is important! says will issue guidance this weekend on this question about immunity cards. Adds: "Right now we have no evidence that the use of a serologic test can show that an individual is immune or is protected from re-infection."

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  15. Apr 17

    “Every day is crucial. We’re losing lives every single day,” said ⁦⁩. Story by ⁦⁩

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  16. Apr 17

    Has Canada’s urban Indigenous population been forgotten amidst the coronavirus pandemic? By ⁦⁩

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  17. Apr 17

    The province has changed the way it reports COVID-19 testing data. Here’s why you should care

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  18. Apr 17

    Toronto builds its own COVID-19 database, calling provincial system ‘outdated and clunky’ | The Star

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  19. Apr 16

    This story by is so sobering. A healthy, wealthy 63-yr-old man who got COVID-19 and was on a ventilator: “It doesn’t matter who you are, what kind of health you’re in, what your social standing is....It can get you. You are not safe.”

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    Apr 16

    This question has been on my mind: What is it *really* like to be mechanically ventilated? I found a patient who could tell me. Many thanks to Richard Reid for sharing his harrowing story: 'It will get you. It can get you. You are not safe.'

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