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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 9h

Canadian COVID Forecast: Oct 25 - Nov 7, 2025

SEVERE: NB, NS, SK
VERY HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NL, North, ON, PEI
HIGH: QC
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 126 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

This image shows gauges with the Oct 25 - Nov 7, 2025 Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right:

Canada: VERY HIGH - 10.5
Alberta: VERY HIGH - 13.0
British Columbia: VERY HIGH - 10.5
Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 10.7
New Brunswick: SEVERE - 15.1
Newfoundland & Labrador: VERY HIGH - 12.2
North: VERY HIGH - 11.7
Nova Scotia: SEVERE - 15.4
Ontario: VERY HIGH - 10.3
Prince Edward Island: VERY HIGH - 10.2
Quebec: HIGH - 9.4
Saskatchewan: SEVERE - 15.9

A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red)."

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Living Safely With Covid @covidsafenz.bsky.social · 7h

LP.8.1 mRNA vaccine:

💠 Markedly boosts neutralising antibody responses against
NB.1.8.1 and XFG

💠 Much lower neutralising antibodies against BA.3.2.2 infections

Stefan Poehlmann @snpoehlm.bsky.social · 8h

1️⃣ Georg Behrens, Markus Hoffmann & team examined antibody responses induced by the novel LP.8.1-adapted mRNA vaccine.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 6h

Infants at higher risk for COVID-19: What parents need to know in 2025

All children, including newborns, can get COVID if exposed. Newborns face higher risk due to weaker immune systems. Data shows 12% of infected newborns needed intensive care, compared with 3% of older children.

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A crying infant lies on a bed while an adult checks the baby’s temperature with a thermometer. The headline overlay reads: “Infants at higher risk for COVID-19: What parents need to know in 2025.”

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Alec Walker 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @smartalecw.bsky.social · 3d

#ABpoli #ABLeg #ABCommonFront

Alberta unions warn Premier Danielle Smith: unprecedented use of the Notwithstanding Clause against workers will result in an unprecedented response from unions in defence of worker rights.

A Facebook post by Gil McGowan, President of the Alberta Federation of Labour, dated 2025/Oct/24. It reads,
BREAKING: Alberta unions warn Premier Danielle Smith: unprecedented use of the Notwithstanding Clause against workers will result in an unprecedented response from unions in defence of worker rights.

At an emergency meeting held today at 5:00pm (MT), the Common Front, an umbrella group for all Alberta unions, leaders unanimously endorsed the following message to Premier Danielle Smith.

Dear Premier Smith,

On behalf of the more than 350,000 working Albertans who we represent, we urge you, in the strongest possible terms, to rule out the use of the Notwithstanding Clause as part of your government’s approach to the teachers’ strike. Invoking the clause would be unprecedented in the history of Canadian labour relations. It would also escalate the situation from a confrontation between your government and the teachers to a confrontation between you and the entire Canadian labour movement. If governments start using the Notwithstanding Clause as a tool in their dealings with workers and unions, it will make a mockery of the constitutionally protected right to strike. Without a robust and reliable right to strike, worker bargaining power will be eroded, and with it, the wages and living standards of all Canadian workers. If you take this unprecedented approach, we will have no choice but to mobilize an unprecedented response. There are many avenues your government could pursue to negotiate with public sector unions that do not involve invoking the Notwithstanding Clause. We urge you to choose them.

Signed by all the unions of the Alberta Federation of Labour and the Alberta Common Front

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The Progress Report @theprogressreport.ca · 8h

Gil McGowan and the AFL are clearly suggesting a general strike is on the table—though whether they have the ability to mobilize one remains to be seen.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 11h

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www.cnn.com/2025/10/27/h...

Canada is poised to lose its measles elimination status — and the US could, too | CNN

Monday marks a full year of continuous measles transmission in Canada, a key milestone poised to set the country back decades on a global health commitment.

www.cnn.com

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 14h

At the pandemic’s start
we anxiously confirmed
that we
had contracted the virus.

As the pandemic continued
we frustratedly confirmed
that we
had contracted the virus again.

And as the pandemic drags on
we are confused
why we
keep getting sick for some reason.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 11h

It’s getting louder.

Slowly but surely the big institutions are catching up. C19 damage is making it into the medical mainstream. People have published it for a long time, now it’s turning up in teaching materials, public announcements.

It’s getting louder.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 11h

There are plenty more vaccine doses to go around.

The Health Ministry said it has ordered 1.94 million doses of the 2025-26 influenza vaccine and 1.4 million doses of the updated #COVID19 vaccines. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports. 💉

#bcpoli #bccovid

No COVID Vaccination Appointments Available? Check Again Later | The Tyee

Vaccinations are up this year over last year, but there are enough doses to go around, BC’s health ministry says.

thetyee.ca

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