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...in SCIentific American
ANALYSIS: We need to learn from COVID-19 – before it's too late
PUBLISHED: Mar 13, 2025
COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.
The world is divided by war. Influenza outbreaks smolder in livestock herds and bird flocks for years. The public is deeply skeptical of the value of medical interventions. Public health agencies offer misleading advice and are focused only on keeping the public calm. There is a shortage of qualified medical professionals, with no end in sight.
WRITTEN BY:
Lyne Filiatrault
Arijit Chakravarty
T. Ryan Gregory
EDITED BY: Madhusree Mukerejee
...in SURREY NOW-LEADER
ANALYSIS: We need to learn from COVID-19 – before it's too late
PUBLISHED: Mar 12, 2025 12:00 PM
Five years in to the ongoing pandemic, we need to know how to best face the next one.
Post-incident debriefs are common practice in emergency medicine, trauma, and disaster medicine. They ensure that the team celebrates what went well, reviews what could have been done better, and what processes need improvements so that the team performs better when the next patient in cardiac arrest or with a gunshot wound rolls in. After a particularly tragic situation that hits too close to home, like a child’s death, a team also debriefs to both process the trauma and provide emotional support.
WRITTEN BY:
Lyne Filiatrault
Arijit Chakravarty
T. Ryan Gregory
...by healthydebate.ca
How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world
PUBLISHED: Mar 10, 2025
As we mark five years since the emergence of SARS-COV-2, the most grievous error of the global pandemic response has become very clear.
It’s not “lockdowns,” as many right-leaning folks might suggest. Nor is it the inflation-stoking government support measures and central bank policies that many have argued were highly excessive. It’s not even the failure to address online health misinformation, as centrists and leftists might claim. It’s even more basic and essential than that.
WRITTEN BY:
Blake Murdoch
...in the New WESTminster record
Gambling with bird flu is asking for trouble — and another pandemic
The warnings are increasing. Infectious disease researchers, virologists, veterinarians, and occupational health specialists around the world are sounding alarms.
The stories of wild birds, mammals, poultry, cattle, and other farm animals with "bird flu" (H5N1) keep coming. The real infection numbers are greater than official reports, but no one knows by how much. Meanwhile, decision-makers and other authorities seem intent on repeating the same mistakes made with COVID-19 and SARS.
Now, it has spread to people.
PUBLISHED: December 8, 2024
WRITTEN BY:
Lyne Filiatrault, MDCM, FRCP EM (retired)
Canadian Aerosol Transmission Coalition member
Heather Hanwell, PhD MPH MSc
Chair and Treasurer, Ontario School Safety
Dorothy Wigmore, MSc
Occupational hygienist
Canadian Aerosol Transmission Coalition
Mark Ungrin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute
University of Calgary
Co-chair, Legal Committee, Canadian COVID Society
MASKS & RESPIRATORS
MEETING AN URGENT NEED
A new respirator performance standard for Canada
Canadians now have their own respirator certification processes, writes the Coalition’s favourite respirator guy,
Simon Smith.
(Thanks to the American Industrial Hygiene Association for permission to share this, from The Synergist, November, 2023.)
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