Dr. Christine Wong

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.

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Erica Schwartz, the new CDC director, ordered agency officials to challenge two measles deaths reported by PA, shunning the agency’s normal procedure of accepting state data and amplifying comments made by her boss, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/h...

Nearly all funding cut during a summer where thousands have been sickened by cyclospora www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

I’m collecting “recent events” for my infectious disease course that starts next week and what are we even doing?!!? www.wral.com/news/local/r...

The number of cases — and deaths — in Bangladesh is staggering. As of Sunday, 528 have died, mostly children. How did this measles outbreak begin? And how is the country responding? n.pr/4tXsSd3

Public Health Authorities Opt For ‘The Hard Way’ To Determine How Transmissible Andes Hantavirus Is

Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can responsibly use these bits of gray matter.

Yikes! Ontario wastewater posted today (Jan 2) with data up to Dec 21st…be careful out there folks. Layered protections work, are equity-supportive, and are simply logical: wwater.ca/Ontario

Deceased crows in Chatham-Kent tested positive for avian flu https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/chatham-kent-dead-crows-avian-flu-9.7027637 More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

“Public health officials are asking people to monitor themselves for symptoms of measles over the holidays if they recently were at one of two schools or a restaurant in southern Manitoba.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth... "It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

This game will 💀me 🤣🤣 Go Jays 🇨🇦

The news in the world is awful, but it's almost Halloween, so let's talk about pumpkin enrichment for big cats. This is Jinx the black leopard (Big Cat Rescue, Florida) enjoying shredding a pumpkin.

Canadian COVID Forecast: Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025 SEVERE: NL, NS, SK VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, PEI HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, ON, QC MODERATE: none About 1 in 95 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

A run-in with some artefact-laden AI-generated analyses convinced Lei Zhu that machine learning wasn’t making his role irrelevant, but more important than ever go.nature.com/4hd7MCU

The place where the first report of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia in a cohort of gay men revealed the disease that came to be called AIDS

The far-left "Kamala would be have been no better than Trump" crowd really needs to fuck off forever.

The shutdown is forcing the closure of a number of America's beloved cultural institutions starting Sunday. Twenty-one Smithsonian museums, its research centers and the National Zoo are all affected. n.pr/48scGty

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Not gonna lie, I need to turn the game off

Me watching the Blue Jays game after they take Yesavage out

Federal agents charged and knocked down two 84-year-olds (84!) as they peacefully protested on Saturday in front of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland, just blocks from their home. Psychopaths.

The manosphere pushes regressive lies & does real harm. Check out our CBC documentary – Harder Better Faster Stronger – on @cbcgem.bsky.social gem.cbc.ca/harder-bette... 💪 - Urine drinking? ✅ - Stone lifting? ✅ - Raw testicle eating? ✅ - Flamethrower? ✅ - Thoughtful critique? ✅

1/ If COVID really was just like "any other respiratory illness", there wouldn't be nearly 470,000 published research papers on #COVID - www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/cor...

What you think your brain is supposed to do

Never wonder whether it's COVID or FLU again. ANNOUNCING THE FIRST combo rapid tests FOR HOME, approved by Health Canada. Detect COVID, FLU A, and FLU B with just one swab. This is a great tool to have ready the next time a family member isn't feeling well.

A new report from Forbes has revealed the Trump family has doubled its fortune—to a total of about $10 billion. Donald Trump’s White House comeback has been “the most lucrative year of his life,” with POTUS raking in $3 billion, two-thirds of which came from cryptocurrency. trib.al/lo2A8D0

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 1,514 #measles cases as of Sept. 24, the highest number of annual cases since the United States declared measles eliminated in 2000.” #CDC

In Toronto, road violence takes more lives than gun violence.

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Our #CellLineOfTheWeek is Histone H2B! 🧬 Our stem cell lines and plasmids are available for just the cost of shipping to reduce the barriers to scientific discovery. 📦 Distributed by @coriellinstitute.bsky.social and @addgene.bsky.social

If anyone knows anything about this ICE agent, you can reach me on Signal at marisakabas.04

Cyril E. Power, "The Escalator," c. 1929 collections.mfa.org/objects/479542

⚠️TYLENOL & AUTISM—RFK Jr & Trump are wrong—the largest best study in the world in 2.5 MILLION KIDS—found no increased autism risk with acetaminophen (aka paracetamol/Tylenol). A crude analysis found only a tiny 5% risk, but once you adjust via sibling controls, the even tiny 5% risk vaporizes to 0%📉

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach. To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat. And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

Tylenol Original sin 🤝 Women’s fault

2024 Swedish study on 2.5M people's data: "Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability... This suggests that associations observed in other models may have been attributable to confounding." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Move over, ChatGPT. Newer AI platforms are aimed at academics and doctors and they're not supposed to hallucinate citations. I tested many of them, but especially Consensus AI. My latest for @mcgilloss.bsky.social. www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

A woman protesting outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, was brutally assaulted by goons who used mace and sting balls on her.

Canadian COVID Forecast Sep 13-26, 2025 CANADA VERY HIGH (no change) About 1 in every 81 people infected Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~12X higher -Long COVID ~8X higher -Hospitalizations ~15X higher -Deaths ~14X higher

RFK Jr.'s vaccine panel may delay hep B shot for newborns https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/09/16/nx-s1-5542405/rfk-jr-acip-vaccine-advisory-panel-vote-delay-hepatitis-b-shot-in-infants 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter