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Freelance journalist. I like to write about unusual people, complicated situations, and running. Former linguist and magazine editor.

Toronto
Joined September 2008
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The best way to contextualize celebrity “doctors” is this: If you were a top notch, shit hot medical professional, helping people get and feel better every day of your life, why would you stop doing that to go on TV? Hint: you probably wouldn’t!
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-We have to reopen everything to save the economy! Even if people DIE! -What happens if we don’t? -Civilization will collapse. PEOPLE COULD DIE. -🤔
Admittedly, the author was probably a little biased with this one: outsideonline.com/2411720/ma…
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✨ AVRIL 14 ✨ @AphexTwin
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A new Canada-wide experimental treatment could provide some important insights into how we beat COVID-19. @mdfdoyle shares his story for @globeandmail about how this could be the armour the front-line workers need in battling this virus. link.chtbl.com/cure-2
Sometimes I like to pause and appreciate the vast breadth of the CBC news dredger. cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/…
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I worked on a really grim story: Contingency plans (like arenas as temporary morgues) are being made across the country to avoid the fate of places like New York, where mass graves on public land are being considered to accommodate the deceased. theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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“Nobody gives a shit right now… Better to turn hockey rinks into makeshift hospitals or morgues.“ — Dr. Alan Drummond of the Canadian Association of Emergency Room Physicians on when the NHL & other leagues should resume play.
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Taking chloroquine for #COVID19 isn't a "debate" where "experts disagree" if it's good or bad. It's one of many drugs that may influence the disease, in ways good and/or bad. It's being studied to see if/how/when it's safe and effective, and if/how/when when it's not. That's it.
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Pertinent to discussions of experimental COVID therapies. “Clinicians rarely had accurate expectations of benefits or harms, but more often underestimated harms and overestimated benefits” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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MDF Doyle retweeted
You could say things are looking up
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What's the potential for treating COVID-19 with plasma from patients who have recovered? We'll find out about clinical trials that have started in Canada at 6:40 when we talk to freelance journalist @mdfdoyle-cbc.ca/listen/live/radio1/wi…
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Tory says he will ask Premier Ford to declare the Easter Bunny an essential worker cp24.com/news/tory-says-he-w…
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Thread: For those who don't understand why the sports media needs to make a concerted effort to cover women's sports: consider a 400 meter race. If the inside and outside lane started at the same point, the inside lane would have an unfair advantage. There's less track to run.
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We’ve come to that stage of the pandemic where we are making masks out of diapers, cool
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Replying to @robyndoolittle
Can we please stop calling it a paywall? Terrible term. Walls keep people out. It’s more like a paydoor. It can be opened as long as you have a key. The key is a subscription.
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Google has released data based on anonymous locators from people's phones and Google Maps to suggest how well Canadians are abiding by 'stay home' orders during the coronavirus outbreak. Charts for the country as a whole, plus Ontario, Quebec and BC, are shown here:
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