Public Health Ontario

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I thought another great example of transparency in action is Public Health Ontario's vector-borne disease tool that takes complex public health surveillance data and turns it into something really useful.

Through digital maps and dashboards across Ontario, people can see where risks are highest for vector-borne diseases, like Lyme disease, spread by infected ticks.

This is open data with a very practical purpose, giving people reliable information they can use to make decisions about their health.

So the timing and the severity is really hard to predict.

What do we know this year? Um, the match seems to be pretty good between the vaccine and the virus that's circulating, and so what I would say is keep a close eye on the public messaging from Public Health Ontario, uh, from your local health units, from your physicians and, and your pharmacies.

As soon as that vaccine's available, probably go out and get it as soon as you can because it looks like the rise has started.

Alissa, uh, we talked, uh, um, people in your clinic were throwing up their hands.

Ontario's Financial Accountability Office estimates the province's homeless population rose 23% since 2022.

Public Health Ontario finding nearly a quarter of Ontario households are food insecure.

And as for income assistance, Foodbanks Canada gave Ontario an F, finding disability welfare gets a recipient to just 54% of the poverty line.

It's food insecurity, it's shelter, it's clothing, it's protection.

So we did that through education.

So all of our staff start with the IPAC modules that are available through IPAC Canada and through Public Health Ontario.

And so we know that they're all starting with that foundation of education.

Yeah.

So you've got it built in.

You're using resources from IPAC Canada, which is great because they've got great resources.

And you also use Public Health Ontario?

Yes.

That's anaphylaxis, four days prior, and that scientist was giving misinformation to the children.

Only four months after that, so sixteen weeks later, Public Health Ontario published that there were twenty reports of blood clots, seven reports of acute cardiovascular injury.

That sounds pretty severe to me.

Acute kidney injuries, skin lesions, acute respiratory distress.