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At the comms meeting tomorrow:
"How did our statement go over online?"
"Well, three million people saw it."
"That's great."
"Forty people liked it."
"Is that good?"
"It's actually unprecedentedly bad. But I kind of think that happened because we're, like, wrong? If you let me send a follow-up tweet that reads, 'Johnson & Johnson will not enforce bedaquiline patents in countries with a high burden of tuberculosis,' it will get SO MANY LIKES."
It is false to suggest—as some recently have—that our patents are being used to prevent access to SIRTURO® (bedaquiline), our medicine for MDR-TB.
In fact, we have already entered into a collaboration with the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility (“GDF”)—the largest procurer of TB medicines—which enables them to invite potential generic suppliers and purchase generic versions of SIRTURO® 100mg. On April 5, during a World Health Organization meeting, the GDF shared its intent to launch a tender for generic versions of SIRTURO® 100mg in the third quarter of 2023: social.jnj.com/3XSgjRZ
In addition, we have shipped more than 660,000 courses of SIRTURO® to 159 countries since launch. Our patents made this possible, enabling us to assist countries to scale-up their use of our medicine responsibly and sustainably and invest in multiple, critical, anti-TB efforts. For instance, in the face of rising drug resistance, we support stewardship efforts that ensure MDR-TB patients can benefit from our medicine today and in the future.
Unfortunately, the most significant barrier to treatment access for patients today is the fact that millions of patients with TB go undiagnosed every year. This is a challenge that we have invested significant resources to overcome and must all get behind if we are to achieve the global goal of ending TB.
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SECRET CANADA: Through hundreds of interviews, an analysis of thousands of government records and a national audit of FOI statistics and practices, the Globe shown that every day, public bodies and governments at every level are breaking the law. theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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Dropout's new password-sharing rule: you should share your password with a friend who can't afford Dropout, because it would be nice of you 🤗
Netflix's new password-sharing rule: Every 31 days your device must log in on your home network — or it will be blocked.
thestreamable.com/news/confi…
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#Netflix has unveiled the details of its new anti-#PasswordSharing policy, detailing a suite of complex gymnastics that customers will be expected to undergo if their living arrangements trigger @Netflix's automated enforcement mechanisms:
thestreamable.com/news/confi… 1/
ALT A Victorian family tree template populated by tintypes of old-timey people. In the foreground stands a menacing, chainsaw-wielding figure, his face obscured by a hoodie. The blade of the chainsaw is poised to chop down the family tree. A Netflix 'N' logo has been superimposed over the man's face.
Absolutely baffled that the Razzies would nominate a twelve year old for worst actress. razzies.com/razz-newz.html
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I am looking for an articling student: 2023-2024. I do Public Law, Constitutional Law and criminal law litigation. This is a full-time position for 8-10 months starting in May. Self-starter, clinical experience, maturity, sound judgment, initiative and client focused preferred.
‘Now’ has not been brought back to life. @GonezMedia has hollowed it out for its name recognition, and is wearing its skin like Vincent D'Onofrio in Men in Black.
BREAKING: New year, new ‘NOW’! We’ve joined the @gonezmedia family.
Stay tuned as we’ll be sharing more information throughout the week as we return officially on January 17th! 👀
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There is no public domain day in Canada this year and thanks to copyright term extension passed by the government in a budget implementation bill in 2022 there will not be one for 20 years.
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Happy Public Domain Day! Today works from 1927 are in the US public domain: Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, Doyle’s last Sherlock Holmes stories, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, an epic pie fight, a song about ice cream, Puttin’ on the Ritz. See what’s on tap for 2023 web.law.duke.edu/cspd/public…
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Update from SickKids hospital ransomware attack itworldcanada.com/article/br…
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Nice account.
This part is interesting, because many of us in living in the labor relations world said immediately that the most likely response is strike action potentially leading to a much bigger general sympathy strike.
A behind-the-scenes look at Ontario’s bid to end the education walkout
By @allisonjones_cp and @liamdevlincasey
globalnews.ca/news/9268778/b…
#onpoli #onted
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interesting to see Ontario's education minister complain that 80 cents of every dollar spent on education goes to pay and benefits
this is also true of policing
a full-time OPP officer who finishes training makes $75,000/yr
a full-time education worker makes $49,000/yr
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Depends on his altitude. I was going Mach 25 when I left the ISS on a spacewalk and that was just fine.
Late to the party here, but In this year’s @TopGunMovie, @TomCruise’s character Maverick ejects from a hypersonic plane at Mach 10.5, before it crashed.
He survived with no injuries.
At that air speed, his body would splatter like a chainmail glove swatting a worm. Just sayin’.
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🚨I wrote about “brain fog”—one of the most common & disabling symptoms of long COVID (and many other pre-pandemic conditions), and one of the most misunderstood.
Here’s what brain fog actually is, and what it’s like to live with it. 1/
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