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Open Letter: Protect Our Province BC Demands Action on COVID-19 from Political Leaders

To Premier David Eby of the NDP, Ms. Sonia Furstenau of the Green Party and Mr. John Rustad of the Conservatives Dear Premier Eby, Ms. Furstenau and Mr. Rustad, Canadians are dying at record rates. ”We're currently seeing nearly as many excess deaths each year in Canada (~40K annually) as Canadian deaths in all of… Continue reading

Latest POP BC Briefings

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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February 21, 2024: COVID and Your Heart

In honor of February being Heart Month, cardiologist Dr. Leslie Kasza joined Protect our Province BC’s Dr. Susan Kuo for a discussion on COVID-19’s impact on heart health and how you can reduce your risk. Don’t be fooled into thinking it won’t happen to you because you are _________, fill in the blank: young, healthy vaccinated and/or you only had a mild infection, etc.

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June 28, 2023: (Un)Safe September Again? It Doesn’t Have To Be

A Protect Our Province BC panel discussion about how we as a community, can pull together to create a safer learning environment for kids when school starts again in September! We can avoid another ‘tripledemic’ if we work together! Ready for Fall 2023? Briefing video:

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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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Open Letter: Protect Our Province BC Demands Action on COVID-19 from Political Leaders

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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