Catherine Clase @cmclase@qoto.org

@mike_johansen @Kidney_boy @MGKatz036 if you have a metric of post transplant ‘success’ percentage you can do very well by only transplant the ‘best quality’ kidneys (with high discard rates) into the ‘fittest’ transplant recipients (topic of today’s discussion)

#GoodhartsLaw strikes again

@mike_johansen @Kidney_boy @MGKatz036 and many OPOs are downright corrupt

See https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/569398-its-time-to-put-patients-and-taxpayers-ahead-of-transplant/

Or this podcast https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-do-so-many-donated-kidneys-end-up-in-the-trash/ (yeah it is Freak, but Sumit Mohan from Columbia has done excellent work here)

@mike_johansen @Kidney_boy @MGKatz036 as you can see it’s so painful to navigate - and different centres/OPOs have different criteria - that dialysis patients need all the help they can get. A case worker, social worker, a vocal/smart family member, a nephrologist champion

@hswapnil I remember thinking this after reading this RCT of revascularization before major vascular surgery having no effect on outcomes (besides delaying the surgery). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15625331/

AWESOME.

I noticed @MoriartyLab has just recently arrived on Mastodon!

Welcome!

Her work is IMO the Last Credible Source of Canadian quantitative #COVID #risk analysis.

If there is another or better source for Canadian analysis (other than Our World In Data), I don't know it.

She is co-lead of the #COVID19 Resources Canada web site.

Here's the hazard page area I spend so much time staring at:
https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index/

And the excess mortality tracker: https://covid19resources.ca/public/excess-mortality-tracker/

Apparently someone incredible has set up a bot to automatically post my Twitter posts here.

Who knew?

Maybe I don't have to use a cross-posting app after all if I just boost the bot posts.

Whoever you are, thank you, thank you!

Canadian Excess Mortality Tracker with today's StatsCan numbers is now live.

Total estimated drug/heat wave-adjusted excess mortality epidemic up to Dec 3/22, Canada: 71,405

Omicron period: 28,850, with a LOT of reporting outstanding

Tracker link: https://covid19resources.ca/public/excess-mortality-tracker/

And @battlingbeaver tells me I should have introduced myself before I just jump in and start posting.

Sorry! I'm Tara. I'm an infectious diseases researcher and Associate Prof at the University of Toronto, and I'm the lead of COVID-19 Resources Canada.

We do the Canadian COVID Forecast, Canadian COVID data reporting, the Canadian Excess Mortality Tracker, and of course, COVID Conversation Zoom sessions supported by me and other volunteer scientists.

It's great to be here at last!

We have to wake up: factory farms are breeding grounds for pandemics | Jonathan Safran Foer and Aaron S Gross | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/20/factory-farms-pandemic-risk-covid-animal-human-health

It never feels like there's enough good news in the world, right? Well, here's some.
A simple & cheap & easily deployable intervention substantially reduces the risk of maternal sepsis in low- & middle-income countries.
Yay science! https://t.co/sPnmkxCMzA

Remember when you watch the Super Bowl this year, you are actively supporting racism.

Once Again, Racism Will Be On Display at the Super Bowl .

Sign the petition. Tell the Kansas City Chiefs to change their name and imagery.

Are the Kansas City Chiefs Offensive? YES. Are they harmful? Also, YES.

-->> https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/change-the-name-and-imagery-of-the-kansas-city-chiefs-football-team

#StopTheChop #NotYourMascot #ChangeTheName #Native #Indigenous #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon

It feels a bit ghoulish to jump in on another server's closure but for those who need a new home now that mastodon.lol is shutting down, we still have plenty of room to grow on retro.pizza! We're a queer-run (but not queer-only) nerd culture instance with a small but healthy community and an admin who is very old and calloused by the Transformers Fandom Message Board Wars of the '00s.

(I don't even know what hashtags this would be under so feel free to boost?)

If there's any marginalised people in AU/NZ that need a new home in the wake of the mastodon.lol shutdown, sing out, Cloud Island would be happy to host you.

If you can please boost this. 🙂

#Trans and other #queer people often need very different self-defence tactics to cishets.

This is a super useful zine that outlines tactics, advice and practices to respond to threats against you: https://www.silversprocket.net/2021/09/13/a-self-defense-study-guide-for-trans-women-and-gender-non-conforming-nonbinary-amab-folks/

#LGBTQ #Transgender

I can't believe nobody here is posting about this being Superb Owl week! This one is Oliver, a Great Horned Owl I once had in my care. #SuperbOwl #Owls

Cyclists are portrayed in debates about bike lanes as younger, athletic people. Berkeley's Commission on Aging recommended against supporting the city's current bike lane project (#Hopkins), apparently thinking bike lanes were not for older people.

And yet, over the past eleven years, the median age of the six cyclists and pedestrians severely injured or killed on Hopkins is 69. Only one of those people was under 50. The oldest was 78.

The stereotypes are wrong.

#Berkeley #BikeTooter

Here's my new hobby which you #TwitterMigration folks might also want to try.

Watch your Local timeline for people just arriving or making their first post. (It's not stalking. Really.)

And then reply with something like, "Hello and welcome! 👋"

Sometimes that starts a conversation. Sometimes you wind up following each other.

Why do that? Maybe to be as kind as all the wonderful folks who welcomed us here?

So, go ahead. Pay it forward. Make a new friend. It's fun. And, you know, social.

The Today Show produced a very strong show on the link between #covid infection and heart attacks that are present especially in young people. Clear. Share with others who are unaware of this link.

#CovidIsNotOver

Link to view or click on attached.
https://www.today.com/health/covid-heart-attack-young-people-rcna69903

"How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but we can start right now to gradually change the world!

How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves!”

- Anne Frank, March 26, 1944
https://www.annefrank.org/en/ #history

Tag me if you find anything interesting, and if you like this #Mastodon #tools list, please give it a boost!

https://researchbuzz.me/2022/11/13/mastodon-tools-part-2-42-resources/