ACTION ALERT 📣 BC is falling behind in protecting patients, healthcare workers, and our healthcare system. As we enter fall and winter, Newfoundland, Labrador, PEI, and major Quebec and Ontario hospitals have already restored mask requirements in medical settings – yet so far, BC has failed to take action.

Instead of masks in healthcare, BC has:
🏥 increasing hospital & ER closures (over 250 so far this year)
🚨 expert warnings about the possibility of the "worst kind of flu season”, due to a mismatch between the current vaccine and an emerging dominant strain
🦠 a global surge of COVID-19
🐓 a rise in avian influenza outbreaks
☣️ increased measles exposures in BC, coupled with the loss of Canada’s measles elimination status 😭😭😭

It’s past time for action. Head to https://donoharmbc.ca/masks-in-healthcare/ to join our renewed calls for BC to restore healthcare mask protections ASAP - and to improve them by closing loopholes and making respirators (like N95 masks) the default choice 😷

#KeepMasksInHealthcare #MaskUp #MasksSaveLives #N95sSaveLives #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #BCHealthcare #COVID19BC #measles #h5n1

ACTION ALERT 📣 BC is falling behind in protecting patients, healthcare workers, and our healthcare system. As we enter fall and winter, Newfoundland, Labrador, PEI, and major Quebec and Ontario hospitals have already restored mask requirements in medical settings – yet so far, BC has failed to take action.

Instead of masks in healthcare, BC has:
🏥 increasing hospital & ER closures (over 250 so far this year)
🚨 expert warnings about the possibility of the "worst kind of flu season”, due to a mismatch between the current vaccine and an emerging dominant strain
🦠 a global surge of COVID-19
🐓 a rise in avian influenza outbreaks
☣️ increased measles exposures in BC, coupled with the loss of Canada’s measles elimination status 😭😭😭

It’s past time for action. Head to https://donoharmbc.ca/masks-in-healthcare/ to join our renewed calls for BC to restore healthcare mask protections ASAP - and to improve them by closing loopholes and making respirators (like N95 masks) the default choice 😷

#KeepMasksInHealthcare #MaskUp #MasksSaveLives #N95sSaveLives #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #BCHealthcare #COVID19BC #measles #h5n1

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115572955015604951

the gringo burgoisie are gonna reckon with the consequences of #FAFO with vaccines

i grew up in Puerto Rico and am old enough to remember we isleños needed to get an additional proof of vaccination to travel to many Latin American and European countries because we aren't a USA state.

that shit of vaccine exemptions for USA colleges? not applicable to portorros.

welcome to being treated as a less-than USA citizen, thanks to Trump.

#vaccines #measles #biowarfare #eugenics

@arstechnica
A preventable tragedy, losing control over measles… one of the most highly infectious diseases, with long term consequences some of which can be severe (deafness, male infertility, for instance).

This is how measles looks in a country that still has a functioning public health vaccine system (& we can still do better): https://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/a4adb0e5-6f93-49b4-80ba-ba38989c35fa/aihw-phe-236_measles_2025.pdf

#measles #publicHealth #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115572955015604951

the gringo burgoisie are gonna reckon with the consequences of #FAFO with vaccines

i grew up in Puerto Rico and am old enough to remember we isleños needed to get an additional proof of vaccination to travel to many Latin American and European countries because we aren't a USA state.

that shit of vaccine exemptions for USA colleges? not applicable to portorros.

welcome to being treated as a less-than USA citizen, thanks to Trump.

#vaccines #measles #biowarfare #eugenics

RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@HelenBranswell/115525957639040365

para los bilingües y poliglotas y glosolálogos que me siguen:

#measles = SARAMPIÓN

#sarampión ≠ VARICELA

#varicela = chicken pox

ahora tengo que repasar las diferencias entre la sarampión y la varicela porque no tengo ni puta idea.

a la verdad que no me acuerdo y no creo que haya habido sarampión en Puerto Rico cuando era niña; aunque siempre ha habido varicela. hasta a mi hijo mayor le dio varicela aquí en #nyc pero no al menor.

#health #pandemics #epidemiology #Canada #USA #Americas

As expected, Canada has lost its measles-free status because of the long-running outbreak there. With it goes the #measles elimination status of the entire zone of the Americas, the only division of the #WHO to ever have achieved measles elimination. https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/measles-canada-americas-paho-who-elimination-status/

My State Banned Vaccine Mandates. Here’s How I Covered It as an Idaho Journalist.
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The Idaho Medical Freedom Act, which makes it illegal to require almost anyone to take a vaccine, test or other “medical intervention,” comes amid a national measles outbreak larger than the U.S. has seen in decades.
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-vaccine-mandate-ban-reporter-story?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Journalism #Idaho #Vaccines #Health #Medicine #PublicHealth #Measles

@ProPublica
Let me see if I got this.

Now, in Idaho, only the vaccinated kids can be sent home from school during an outbreak?

#ID #Idaho #MedicalMalpractice #CommunicableDisease #measles #Covid19

#MEASLES

From NBC News.com: Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/measles-students-quarantined-south-carolina-minnesota-rcna236844

#MEASLES

From NBC News.com: Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/measles-students-quarantined-south-carolina-minnesota-rcna236844

WRDW: SAFETY ALERT: South Carolina confirms full-blown outbreak of measles

"...COLUMBIA, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - South Carolina health officials have confirmed a full-blown measles outbreak in the Upstate.

As of Wednesday, eight cases had been reported in that region of South Carolina. Five of them became sick within the past month and are part of a newly identified outbreak of measles.

A measles outbreak is defined as three or more cases that are linked.

The people involved in the outbreak are unvaccinated...."

https://www.wrdw.com/2025/10/02/safety-alert-south-carolina-confirms-full-blown-outbreak-measles/

#measles #outbreak #health #healthcare #SouthCarolina

So tragic: Alberta baby born with congenital #measles (mother contracted measles late in pregnancy) died shortly after birth.
The province, which has had a massive measles outbreak this year, says this is the 7th case of congenital measles in 2025. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/premature-baby-dies-of-measles-in-alberta-outbreak-s-1st-death-1.7649692

WRDW: SAFETY ALERT: South Carolina confirms full-blown outbreak of measles

"...COLUMBIA, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - South Carolina health officials have confirmed a full-blown measles outbreak in the Upstate.

As of Wednesday, eight cases had been reported in that region of South Carolina. Five of them became sick within the past month and are part of a newly identified outbreak of measles.

A measles outbreak is defined as three or more cases that are linked.

The people involved in the outbreak are unvaccinated...."

https://www.wrdw.com/2025/10/02/safety-alert-south-carolina-confirms-full-blown-outbreak-measles/

#measles #outbreak #health #healthcare #SouthCarolina

So tragic: Alberta baby born with congenital #measles (mother contracted measles late in pregnancy) died shortly after birth.
The province, which has had a massive measles outbreak this year, says this is the 7th case of congenital measles in 2025. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/premature-baby-dies-of-measles-in-alberta-outbreak-s-1st-death-1.7649692

The #WestCoastHealthAlliance has reviewed the most recent recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) regarding the combined #measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (MMRV) vaccine, as well as the proposed—though tabled—recommendations on the #HepatitisB vaccine.

Read our news release at https://doh.wa.gov/newsroom/concerns-raised-over-impact-acip-recommendations-vaccine-access-equity-and-parental-choice

The #WestCoastHealthAlliance has reviewed the most recent recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) regarding the combined #measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (MMRV) vaccine, as well as the proposed—though tabled—recommendations on the #HepatitisB vaccine.

Read our news release at https://doh.wa.gov/newsroom/concerns-raised-over-impact-acip-recommendations-vaccine-access-equity-and-parental-choice

Reminder to #MaskUpSaveLives.

More than #covid is #airborne - #measles is airborne too. Also, with #wildfires & folks with pollen allergy issues - wearing a mask helps with not getting super sick, especially if others also mask up. You're guaranteed only one life - don't fuck it up by simply refusing to #MaskUp

https://flipboard.com/@ottawacititzen/ottawa-news-1u5c7nbiz/-/a-_rzWotBrTAOBzfNsL_7o8w%3Aa%3A2439373826-%2F0

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/measles

#Contagious#Health#Medical#CDNpoli#BCpoli#FireBonnieHenry#Preventative#BeProactive#DoBetter#TakeAction#YallStillMasking#ProtectCommunity#CommunityHealth#HealthFirst#Rubeola#Preventable#FactSheet #Science

GOP lawmakers will pay dearly — in lives and votes — for not reining in a peddler of junk science and anti-vax conspiracies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/07/25/world/rfk-jr-making-america-sick-again/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #robertfkennedyjr #health #medicine #republicans #vaccinations #measles #donaldtrump