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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 1d

And in NB it’s divided by language lines. Patients and workers involved in the francophone system have never had required masks brought back after @vitalitenb.bsky.social dropped them. How is this right? I know of people who caught covid in the French hospitals and died due to HAI covid. 💔

Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 1d

Clinics are the one place patients should be SAFE

Colds, flus & coughs are the #1 reason why Canadians see a doctor

…so where did masking in healthcare go?

It’s political.

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2d

How politics is putting patients and health care workers at risk www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... @drgorfinkel.bsky.social @thestar.com

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 2d

MAGA Alberta troll site begs Trump to ban me. Little wonder that MAGA Alberta looks to a foreign adversary for help.
I have been blacklisted by Putin, being banned by Trump would be a source of honour.
And I remain proudly Canadian - true, north, strong, free and never a quisling traitor.

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naberu 🇨🇦 @naberu.bsky.social · 3d

Five and half years since we’ve known covid is transmitted by aerosols and a provicial health authority has released an AI chat bot that disseminates droplet disinformation.

NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 3d

Asking NS’s official health AI about airborne transmission, aerosols, etc #NSPoli

Screenshot of asking NS health AI if Covid is airborne. Is Covid airborne?
Wednesday, 10:02 a.m.
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• Nova
Wednesday, 10:02 a.m.
The primary method of COVID-19 transmission is through droplets, which quickly settle on surfaces within two meters. However, airborne precautions are used during aerosol-generating medical procedures (AGMPs) to minimize the risk of transmission. More information on AGMPs can be found here.

Screenshot of asking NS health AI about aerosol transmission. Tell me about aerosol transmission
Nova
Wednesday, 10:02 a.m.
Airborne transmission occurs when airborne particles remain suspended in the air, travel on air currents, and are inhaled by others nearby or some distance away from the source. Control of airborne transmission requires control of airflow through special ventilation systems and the use of respiratory protection.
An aerosol-generating medical procedure (AGMP)
is any procedy
production of
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aerosols of va
roplet nuclei.
Examples of AGMPs include bronchoscopy

Screenshot of asking NS health AI if breathing generates aerosols You
Wednesday, 10:03 a.m.
Does breathing generate aerosols?
•Nova
Wednesday, 10:03 a.m.
While normal breathing does produce some droplets, activities like talking, screaming, coughing, or sneezing produce larger droplets.
Labour and delivery are also not considered aerosolized events. Aerosol Generating Medical Procedures (AGMPs) are specific medical procedures that generate aerosols.

The AI claimed that breathing generates fewer aerosols than AGMPs so I tried asking for more info. How many aerosols are generated by breathing compared to an AGMP?
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Nova
Wednesday, 10:04 a.m.
To best answer your question, could you clarify what context you're interested in? For example, are you concerned about a specific medical setting or a particular activity? #NSPoli

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AnnaHalifax @annahalifax.bsky.social · 3d

NS Health's AI apparently programmed with incorrect information. Covid's primary route of transmission is aerosol (airborne), not droplets/surfaces.

NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 3d

Asking NS’s official health AI about airborne transmission, aerosols, etc #NSPoli

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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 3d

As far as I can Google, there has been no media coverage of the AI chat bot yet. This is a great opportunity for media in NS and Canada wide, especially independent media to ask some good questions and inform the public.

NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 3d

Holy F. NS health is using an AI chat bot called Nova and their recent Facebook post encourages people to ASK THE AI CHAT BOT about their SYMPTOMS. This is absolutely wild. www.yourhealthns.ca #nspoli

YourHealthNS

www.yourhealthns.ca

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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 3d

I hope people in NS fight back against this, and win. NS Health is marketing an AI chat bot as a RELIABLE source of info to PREVENT infection. This is straight from the marketing. But it was trained on droplet dogma and claims COVID spreads by droplets predominantly. This is unacceptable. /1

NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 3d

Holy F. NS health is using an AI chat bot called Nova and their recent Facebook post encourages people to ASK THE AI CHAT BOT about their SYMPTOMS. This is absolutely wild. www.yourhealthns.ca #nspoli

YourHealthNS

www.yourhealthns.ca

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Joannie 🇨🇦 😷 @joannie.bsky.social · 3d

a yellow rubber duck with smoke coming out of its mouth

ALT: a yellow rubber duck with smoke coming out of its mouth

media.tenor.com

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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 3d

Holy F. NS health is using an AI chat bot called Nova and their recent Facebook post encourages people to ASK THE AI CHAT BOT about their SYMPTOMS. This is absolutely wild. www.yourhealthns.ca #nspoli

YourHealthNS

www.yourhealthns.ca

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Still COVIDing Canada @stillcovidingca.bsky.social · 4d

Quebec launches fall vaccination campaign: COVID-19 shots no longer free for all

CityNews
October 7, 2025

stillcoviding.ca/en/news/queb...

#COVID #COVID19 #health #Quebec #CovidIsNotOver

Quebec launches fall vaccination campaign: COVID-19 shots no longer free for all

stillcoviding.ca

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Rob Allen @rgsallen.bsky.social · 4d

"Why are you wearing that mask?"

Exhibit #637

Graph of COVID-19 wastewater viral activity for the testing station in Sackville NB.

It shows a 35-fold increase in viral load from mid-August until late September.

https://health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/

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Joannie 🇨🇦 😷 @joannie.bsky.social · 4d

All booked for both!

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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 4d

Have you booked your vaccine yet? Fall Covid & influenza vaccines avail in NB next week. You have options:
1. Provincial vaccine scheduler (the website we’re all familiar w by now - and you can use 888888888 for Medicare no.) schedule.ableassess.com/VNB/Register...
2. Call PH
3. Ask pharm
#nbpoli

Applicant Registration

In order to locate an available appointment, please provide us with some information about yourself.

schedule.ableassess.com

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Joannie 🇨🇦 😷 @joannie.bsky.social · 7d

Look at those % positivity rates in Atlantic Canada! health-infobase.canada.ca/respiratory-...

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Joannie 🇨🇦 😷 @joannie.bsky.social · 7d

First 4 weeks of NB Respiratory season. God help us when RSV and Flu take off.

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Joannie 🇨🇦 😷 @joannie.bsky.social · 7d

My Mom was discharged from DECH after 10 days and I was so disappointed with the inconsistent masking by doctors, nurses, and housekeeping. This, when Horizon brought back masking! @susanholtnb.bsky.social This is one of the reasons we need to clean indoor air!!!

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Joannie 🇨🇦 😷 @joannie.bsky.social · 8d

Healthcare should care @susanholtnb.bsky.social

NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 8d

Another Friday; another day of supplying $100 worth of better masks to everyone working at the hospital with our own money. Been doing this over a year. Probably spent more than $1000 trying to protect colleagues and patients. Wish healthcare would care. We supply M & L.

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Joannie 🇨🇦 😷 @joannie.bsky.social · 8d

Best masks for my Mom who has breathing issues.

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Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · 9d

Low-hanging policy fruit for the Carney government:

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 9d

Provinces opened the door for U.S. doctors. But Ottawa is blocking the hallway

by @codeblackamerica.bsky.social

Provinces opened the door for US doctors, as Ottawa blocks the hallway

Canada could be the go-to refuge for US doctors as American medicine collapses.

canadahealthwatch.ca

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Joannie 🇨🇦 😷 @joannie.bsky.social · 8d

I've noticed this as well and it's worrisome after Harvest and YQM festivals.

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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 9d

“It’s a safety tool” - co-sign 💯!!! All the awful, uncomfortable sounding coughing I’m hearing in the hospital and community- I am so glad to still be masking. I’m breathing well. I’m feeling great. I have a tool that I use daily to stay in the best health I can.

🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 9d

It's unreal the level of hatred for masks that AHS and AB Gov't has.

It's a safety tool that works to protect patients and staff. Why won't we use it?

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Alberta hospital’s mask mandate for measles ended a day after it alerted province, health officials

Internal e-mails show AHS staff fielded questions about mandate from province

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 10d

😰 SOBERING

How many patients LEFT EMERGENCY ROOMS without being seen last year?

Overall- 1 in 13 got fed up with the wait
...HALF were urgent cases

Result?
14% ⤴️ RISK of admission & death within 7 days compared to those who stayed

🎧8 min
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Brad Perry @bradjperry.bsky.social · 11d

For about 10 minutes, tonight was one of the best aurora displays I’ve seen all year. Typically at NB latitudes, even when the aurora is visible to the eye, it still appears colourless. Tonight was an exception and I could briefly see colours with the naked eye!

September 30, 2025 – 9:44pm
#aurora

The silhouette of a man standing atop the barren ground of a clear cut forest against a backdrop of green and pink aurora.

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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 11d

Oh my 😢
Only 30-something % of my hospital network got the flu shot last year - workers - extremely low and that is flu shot so you know Covid was lower

Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 12d

According to PHAC, 3.9% of people in Canada were vaccinated against COVID-19 according to recommendations in 2024.
health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vac...

Quebec did not report vaccination coverage in 2024.

COVID-19 vaccination coverage in Canada - Canada.ca

COVID-19 vaccination coverage across Canada by demographics and key populations. Updated every Friday at 12:00 PM Eastern Time.

health-infobase.canada.ca

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Sabina Vohra-Miller @sabivm.bsky.social · 11d

Nancy Mace went on Bill Maher to tell people to take ibuprofen instead of acetaminophen in pregnancy. This is extremely dangerous advice. I explain here what the risks are.

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Joannie 🇨🇦 😷 @joannie.bsky.social · 11d

Not as free with any of their info.

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