Mom's voices

"Imagine driving as fast as you could to the ER with a baby in the backseat and fearing she is struggling to breathe.
You hear wailing that tells you breath is going in. You move fast to get to the door.

But inside, the hospital is overrun with children just like yours."

Kristy Kirkup, mom, Globe & Mail National reporter
@kkirkup

#WearAMAskForMe #Ontario #HealthCare #Holidays #CovidUnderTheXmasTree #flu

Sobering article outlining the impact of an overwhelmed healthcare system.

"Emotions range from outright anger to tears to shock' for families who have surgeries cancelled.
The slower pace at the operating room at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children right now is a precursor to a huge wave of surgeries that will need to be conducted when redeployed staff can return once more to their regular roles"

#SickKidsHospital #WearAMAskForMe
#PediatricHealthCrisis

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/sickkids-operating-room-surgery-list-1.6685205

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@AlanBixter RT
Just to clarify:

"There is now a large literature on COVID infection causing long term immunosuppression (at least 8 months), which has contributed to the major outbreaks of other pathogens and (normally) non-pathogenic outbreaks."

COVID is causing this.

#paediatric #immunosuppression
#WearAMaskForMe #Holidays #Indoors #Flu

It is surreal to see other school families who don't mask even after multiple trips to the ER with their sick kids

#covidIsNotOver #WearAMaskForMe #MitigatePlease #ComeOnPeople

Nurses Voices: 💔​ @Birgitomo

"The Respiratory Therapist has been extremely busy attending to very sick children in the ER.

So many kids, all under 5yrs old - gasping for air, with chest retractions, & lots of crying. It doesn't take much to protect our little ones you know?
Just #BringBackMasks & #wearamaskforme
#Ontario #TheKidsAreNotOkay

💥​ 💯​
@Billius27

"Canadian public has mostly moved on from masking in public spaces and schools since mandates were dropped in Spring 2022. Masking adherence has dropped from 70% to under 10%.

If mask mandates had not been dropped, right now we could be looking at roughly
4.4 million fewer infected by Omicron
2,300 fewer Omicron deaths, 230,000 fewer long covid cases,

and of course fewer child respiratory illnesses..”

https://billius27.substack.com/p/the-case-for-mask-mandates
#Canada #WearAMaskForMe #TheKidsAreNOTOkay 💔​

"If repeated Covid infections are damaging the immune system in a manner that makes other infectious pathogens cause more severe disease, and we have zero plan to stop people - stop kids - getting infected over and over again, then we are in deep, deep trouble." @brownecfm

#Covid #Kids #WearAMaskForMe
#CovidISNotOver
#MaskUp #Mitigate