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March 29, 2025: Long is Real in Kids Too!

Join us for an interview with Dr. Peter Rowe, Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Children's Centre Chronic Fatigue Clinic at Johns Hopkins University as he gives us new hope for the treatment of Long COVID in Children. He explains that because of the parallels between ME/CFS and Long COVID in children, his 30 years of researched treatments for ME/CFS can be used to help children with Long COVID now while we are waiting for RCT ( randomized clinical trials) to occur.

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Oct 30, 2024: Long Covid – A Mass Disabling Event

Please join us for the POP BC live briefing on Long COVID: A Mass Disabling Event on Wednesday, October 30th at 1 pm as we discuss the important topic of Long COVID with Kayli Jamieson and Connie Chan, Long COVID survivors, and Dr. Ric Arseneau, Internal Medicine Specialist and Long COVID Physician and Director of one of the clinics treating Long COVID in BC.

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Sept 4, 2024: Clean Air in School: A Breath of Fresh Air

As we start a new school year, clean air in schools is a vital issue not only because of the health effects from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and air pollution, but because of the direct link to the ability of children to learn. Hear about the new recommendations for Indoor Air Quality in Schools and Childcare Facilities from Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health.

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May 30, 2024: Are Hospitals Making Us Sick?

“For some of the most vulnerable patients, the air in the hospital can be deadlier than the diagnosis that brought them in” Join Protect our Province BC and Drs. Susan Lee, Jean Warneboldt, and Victor Leung to hear about their advocacy, their struggles and successes in improving the air quality in different BC Health Authorities. Why are different healthcare administrations within BC treating this critical topic so differently - in one, obstructing and blocking and in another rewarding and awarding?

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More News from POP BC

When Breathing Makes You Sick.

Since the start of the pandemic the BC School Covid Tracker initiative, run by two dedicated moms, has been alerting families and educators of Covid exposures in schools and pre-schools for close to 4 years now. Their work has allowed thousands of families to make decisions and choices keeping their children and family safer from infection. Periodically, some of their 55,0000 followers share their stories.

BC health advocates call on government to reinstate healthcare mask requirements

Protect Our Province BC, DoNoHarm BC, and Masks4EastVan highlight harms and human rights violations from loss of healthcare safety Wednesday, April 17, 2024 (British Columbia) - Independent public health groups Protect Our Province BC, DoNoHarm BC, and Masks4EastVan are calling on the BC government to restore healthcare mask requirements. They are urging British Columbians to… Continue reading

State of Public Health in BC

No lessons were learned. This year, despite the lessons that could have been learned and implemented, BC public health was as ill prepared as it was last year for the viral "respiratory season”. * And so on January 9, a new record number of hospital admissions was set at 10,345 . For more up to… Continue reading

Clip from Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly’s testimony on January 18, 2024

Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, a clinical epidemiologist at University of Washington in St-Louis, and a leading COVID-19 researcher, testified before the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions. His words were sobering:

“The best way to prevent Long Covid is to prevent COVID in the first place. This requires a multilayered/multipronged approach. We must develop sustainable solutions to prevent repeated infections with SARS-CoV-2 and Long Covid that would be embraced by the public.”

“If we learn one thing from this pandemic, we must recognize that ‘pandemics disable people’ — that is acute infections can lead to chronic disabling disease. We call these Infection-Associated Chronic Conditions (IACC). These include Long Covid, ME/CFS and many other acute infections that lead to chronic disease.”

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Addressing Long COVID: Advancing Research and Improving Patient Care

Clip from Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly’s testimony on January 18, 2024

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