Protect our Province Alberta

Ventilation experts Robert Bean (Calgary ASHRAE Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer) and Amanda Hu (a Calgary based interdisciplinary maker and contributor to Fresh Air Schools AB) discuss methods to contain and isolate a positive member of your family safely, effectively, and most importantly inexpensively. Ryan Utter (Ottawa MSc Epidemiology student) shares his lived experience with managing a positive COVID-19 family member at home. Dr. Joe Vipond provides an update on the COVID-19 situation in Alberta.

Dr. Gosia Gasperowicz (U of C Developmental Biologist), Dr. Kate Bisby (Calgary Family Physician), Dr. Neeja Bakshi (Edmonton Internal Medicine), and Dr. Joe Vipond (Calgary Emergency Physician) discuss the rapidly escalating situation with COVID-19 in Alberta. They take questions from the media as well as answer questions from viewers about the lack of transparency, COVID-19 transmission via the eyes, and third doses for smaller humans aged 10-18. Michelle finishes with a good news story out of the Alberta Activist Collective!

Trustee), Dr. Joe Oliver (Ontario Pediatrician), and Dr. Joe Vipond (Calgary Emergency Physician) discuss safe school reopening strategies as Alberta students prepare to return to the classroom next week. Dr. Vipond provides an update on the COVID-19 situation in Alberta.

Dr. Gosia Gasperowicz (U of C developmental biologist), Dr. Kate Bisby (Calgary family physician), Dr. Joe Vipond (Calgary emergency physician), Dr. Wing Li (Neuroscience, Support our Students), and Gil McGowan (President, Alberta Federation of Labour) speak to the Alberta government's announcements today. Dr. Gasperowicz also provides an update on the COVID-19 situation in Alberta.

(Edmonton Consulting Psychiatrist), Dr. Malogazata (Gosia) Gasperowicz (U of C Developmental Biologist), Danielle Larivee (RN, VP United Nurses of Alberta), and Dr. Lorian Hardcastle (U of C Associate Professor, Health Law and Policy) in response to the Alberta government's press conference earlier in the afternoon. Dr. Gasperowicz provides modelling for what we should expect in the coming days as Omicron becomes the dominant variant in the province.

Dr. Shazma Mithani (Edmonton Emergency Physician) and Dr. Dick Zoutman (Ontario Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease, and Medical Microbiology Physician) make their Protect our Province Alberta debut with Sarah Mackey of the Alberta Vax Hunters for an up to date discussion on holiday safety, Omicron, third doses, airborne transmission, and a live demonstration of a rapid antigen test with Michelle Brandenburg. Dr. Joe Vipond also provides an update on the COVID-19 situation in Alberta.

Dr. Gosia Gasperovicz (Developmental biologist, University of Calgary), Dr. Alyson Kelvin (Virologist and Vaccinologist, University of Saskatchewan), and Dr. Jason Kindrachuk (Assistant Professor, Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba) discuss the new COVID-19 Variant of Concern Omicron and how Alberta should use the precautionary principle to prevent the fifth wave. Dr. Joe Vipond provides an update on the COVID-19 situation in Alberta and in South Africa as it relates to Omicron.

We also get some really important tips from a very special guest, Eleanor (Junior VaxHunter), for other not-so-tiny humans getting their pediatric COVID-19 vaccine to wrap up the briefing!

Mike Parker, EMS Paramedic and President of the Health Sciences Association of Alberta, speaks to the mounting crisis in our province's EMS system from centralization, ambulance red alerts, and more. Dr. Joe Vipond provides an update on the COVID-19 situation in Alberta.

Dr. David Keegan (Calgary Family Physician), Dr. Neeja Bakshi (Internal Medicine Physician), Dr. Mukarram Zaidi (Calgary Family Physician), and Sandra Azocar (Executive Director, Friends of Medicare) discuss the crisis in family medicine in Alberta and the added complications COVID-19 has left. Dr. Joe Vipond provides an update on the COVID-19 situation in Alberta.

Dr. Malgorzata (Gosia) Gasperowicz (Developmental Biologist), Dr. David Fisman (Physician Epidemiologist), Dr. Kashif Pirzada (Emergency Physician), Dr. Lorian Hardcastle (Associate Professor, U of C Law), and Thomas Lukaszuk (Former Alberta Deputy Premier) discuss strategies to avoid a fifth wave of COVID-19 in Alberta. Dr. Gasperowicz provides an update on COVID-19 in Alberta.