Protect our Province Alberta

Michelle is joined by Dr. Lorian Hardcastle (Associate Professor in Helath Law and Policy at the University of Calgary), Dr. Jon Meddings (Calgary Gastroenterologist, Past Dean of the Cumming School of Medicine), and Chris Gallaway (Executive Director of Friends of Medicare) to discuss the current and future state of public healthcare in Alberta.

Presenter: Dr. Jon Meddings

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Michelle is joined by Dr. Sam Myhr (Alberta Rural Primary Care Physician) and Dr. Jon Hilner (St. Albert Family Physician) to discuss the family medicine and primary care situation in Alberta.

Join us next Tuesday, November 28th at 3:30PM MST for a briefing on the trajectory of Alberta’s publicly delivered healthcare system.

Presenters: Dr. Sam Myhr and Dr. Jon Hilner

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Michelle is joined by Dr. David Keeghan (Edmonton Emergency Physician), Dr. Neeja Bakshi (Edmonton Internal Medicine Physician), Dr. Gosia Gasperowicz (U of C Developmental Biologist), and Dr. Joe Vipond (Calgary Emergency Physician) to discuss the current state of the COVID-19 and the acute health care system in Alberta.

Presenter: Dr. Joe Vipond

Presenter: Dr. Gosia Gasperowicz

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Thanks to all that joined us for our very first Twitter Spaces event! We had some technical problems to start with however the podcast version cleans that up. Dr. Gasperowicz discusses how “mild” Omicron has been, BA1 and BA4/5 bivalent vaccines with VaxHunter Janaya Matheson, and we dive into statistics and trends with guest Ziad Fazel.

Please note that not all opinions and views of the listener guests represent Protect our Province Alberta.

Presenter: Dr. Gosia Gasperowicz

Alberta Health has not updated Healthcare Capacity graph since 28 May.https://t.co/Yn6nXKrtNe@AHS_media has not updated its quarterly performance metrics since Septemberhttps://t.co/w6J78DROb7@HQCA has not updated Hospital Occupancy since Decemberhttps://t.co/oivkvTAtAj pic.twitter.com/RtKb0Q4bAQ

Info from EPSB & ECSD reveals 21 schools in those two districts are on a "respiratory illness outbreak" in #YEG.
Outbreaks are determined by AHS when >10% of students are absent.
ECSD did not provide which schools are on outbreak status, but EPSB did: pic.twitter.com/NZSt6ikJEL

Tx, Kyra. The mysterious "respiratory illness" is not the flu. @ucalgaryCHI tracks influenza in wastewater too – it is zero.

GoA dumped this on our schools, where people mix indoors for 8 hrs/day, by prohibiting school masking policies even in outbreaks.https://t.co/PdmEoYLvYP pic.twitter.com/hmbLtYoBAF

This weekend, like so many weekends, our medicine service is overcapacity.

And like so many weekends, we hold emergency meetings, try to "fix" things to create capacity, hoping that magically we will have the solution. That this time, we'll figure it out.

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Michelle is joined by Dr. Paul Parks (AMA Emergency Medicine Section President), Dr. Gosia Gasperowicz (U of C Developmental Biologist), and Dr. Joe Vipond (Calgary Emergency Physician) to discuss the current state of the healthcare system in Alberta with commentary on the potential repeal of the Restrictions Exemption Program (REP) in the near future. Dr. Parks discusses outpatient treatments for COVID-19 and things we can do to promote our bodies to fight off COVID-19 if you were to contract it. Dr. Vipond provides and update on the overall COVID-19 situation in Alberta.

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Presenter: Dr. Paul Parks

Presenter: Dr. Gasperowicz

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Michelle is joined by:

• Dr. Lyne Filiatrault (Retired Vancouver Emergency Physician and PoPBC Member)
• Mario Possamai (Senior Advisor, SARS Commission)
• Matt Oliver

The panel discusses what we learned from SARS-CoV-1 (2003 SARS pandemic) and what we did and didn’t apply going into SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19).

Presenter: Dr. Lyne Filiatrault

Presenter: Mario Possamai

Presenter: Matt Oliver

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Michelle is joined by Dr. Alexander Wong (Regina Infectious Disease, HIV, and Addictions physician), Dr. Jillian Horton (Associate Chair of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba), and Dr. Christine Peschken (Associate Professor, University of Manitoba) to discuss the COVID-19 situation across the prairie provinces and draw similarities across provincial borders. Dr. Wong provides a detailed view into public health measures in Saskatchewan.

Presenter: Dr. Alexander Wong

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Michelle is joined by Dr. Michael Parkins (Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Infectious Disease, University of Calgary) and Dr. Angus Chu (Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calgary) discuss the ongoing wastewater monitoring research at the University of Calgary and University of Alberta. Dr. Joe Vipond provides an update on the COVID-19 situation in Alberta.

Presenter: Dr. Michael Parkins

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For our second national panel on COVID-19, Michelle is joined by:

• Dr. Katharine Smart (President, Canadian Medical Association)
• Dr. Lyne Filiatrault (Retired Emergency Physician and PopBC member)
• Dr. Anne Bhéreur (Palliative Care and Family Physician and PopQC member)
• Dr. Noel Gibney (Professor Emeritus, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta)
• Dr. David Fisman (Ontario Physician/Epidemiologist)

Dr. Fisman provides an update on the COVID-19 situation in Canada.

Presenter: Dr. David Fisman

Presenter: Dr. Noel Gibney

Presenter: Dr. Anne Bhéreur

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Dr. Ubaka Ogbogu (U of A Associate Professor and Katz Research Fellow in Health and Science Policy), Duane Bratt (Mount Royal Professor of Political Science), Dr. Lorian Hardcastle (U of C Associate Professor of Law and Health Policy), and Graham Thomson (Edmonton Political Columnist) join Michelle to discuss the legal and political implications of the COVID-19 crisis in Alberta. Dr. Joe Vipond provides an update on the COVID-19 situation in Alberta.

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