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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 7h

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.

This image shows gauges with the Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025 Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right:

Canada: HIGH - 8.9
Alberta: HIGH - 7.0
British Columbia: HIGH - 8.4
Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 14.9
New Brunswick: VERY HIGH - 11.3
Newfoundland & Labrador: SEVERE - 17.0
North: VERY HIGH - 12.3
Nova Scotia: SEVERE - 16.3
Ontario: HIGH - 7.5
Prince Edward Island: VERY HIGH - 11.8
Quebec: HIGH - 10.0
Saskatchewan: SEVERE - 17.0

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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🇨🇦 🍁Canadian Chatty Cathy Cody🍁 🇨🇦 @chattycathycody.bsky.social · 17h

Fredericton vaccine clinics

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Anneke @littleann4ever.bsky.social · 1d

A few weeks ago there was a #Covid19 outbreak on my Mom’s memory care wing. The whole section was quarantined. Family could still visit but before entering a resident’s room, they were req’d to put on full gowns & gloves. They were even told to remove their shoes. But masks were optional.😡

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Joannie 🇨🇦 😷 @joannie.bsky.social · 1d

Just when I think I've heard it all 😡

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

What does a person do in @govnb.bsky.social when their long covid causes cardiac issues and there’s no follow up, no care? 💔💔💔💔💔

Haley @haleyjo261.bsky.social · 1d

Where do we go for acute issues that are caused by our chronic illnesses? The ER doesn’t manage our issues. Well neither do our doctors. So where do we go. What do we do? We sit at home and hope it’s not fatal.

I would love @susanholtnb.bsky.social and the minister of health to weigh in on this.

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Linda Dalpé @dalpe.bsky.social · 4d

This is not quite accurate.
In NB, only facilities under the anglophone regional health authority, @horizonhealthnb.bsky.social reinstated masking.
The francophone regional health authority, @vitalitenb.bsky.social has not reinstated masking, had not done so last year either...

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 5d

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 🍁

"Masks prevent the transmission of respiratory viruses. The science is clear," writes Iris Gorfinkel. "The standards are in place. A health policy that reacts to hospitalizations and deaths falls below the long-held standard of do-no-harm. Policies that are enacted only once hospitalizations are high do the opposite.

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Still COVIDing Canada @stillcovidingca.bsky.social · 3d

Masks will be required in all Health P.E.I. facilities starting Oct. 14

CBC News
October 10, 2025
By Brittany Spencer, Marilee Devries

stillcoviding.ca/en/news/mask...

#COVID #health #PEI #CovidIsNotOver

Masks will be required in all Health P.E.I. facilities starting Oct. 14

stillcoviding.ca

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

This is terrifying and so wrong. I lived in some of these areas and worked in a dangerous enough industry where access to an ED was important. Took more than one coworker to one of these EDs due to workplace injuries.

Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 3d

Think of the impact this would have on the pt's family, wondering if an open local ED could have made a difference?

We understand that we cannot have an ED in every town, but closures are regularly occurring in places like: Hinton, Edson, Lac La Biche, Oyen... and many more
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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 3d

RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2

- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 2d

To our U.S. Colleagues,

Condolences on the loss of the CDC’s MMWR.

3 resources that may help
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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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

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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

a yellow rubber duck with smoke coming out of its mouth

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

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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

"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 · 7d

All booked for both!

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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 10d

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

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Joannie 🇨🇦 😷 @joannie.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Joannie 🇨🇦 😷 @joannie.bsky.social · 10d

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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