Kashif Pirzada, MD
@KashPrime
Emergency Physician, fighter of misfortune and disease; Co-Chair of @CanCovSoc; Love history/politics/coding/tech/AI. #fella 🇨🇦/acc
Wanted to share with you something near and dear to my heart. Today my colleagues and I are proud to launch the Canadian Covid Society. @CanCovSoc Covid-19 is thankfully not the threat it once was, but there are still significant issues with having a new disease roughly 4x…
As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.
Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza on.ft.com/46iUoK6
How long before people intentionally put in typos to make sure people believe an LLM didn’t write a thing?
With France moving forward to recognize the State of Palestine, Canada can and should do the same.
Fidèle à son engagement historique pour une paix juste et durable au Proche-Orient, j’ai décidé que la France reconnaîtra l’État de Palestine. J’en ferai l’annonce solennelle à l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies, au mois de septembre prochain.…
Canada condemns the Israeli government’s failure to prevent the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian disaster in Gaza. Israel’s control of aid distribution must be replaced by comprehensive provision of humanitarian assistance led by international organizations. Many of these are…
Recently, 🇺🇦 hero of this war Robert Broudi (aka “Magyar”) spoke at a military conference in 🇩🇪 Wiesbaden. His speech stunned many people. It’s a bit long for Twitter but totally worth a read. “In the Ukrainian army, they call me Magyar. I am a field commander of combat drone…
Consistent with its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognize the State of Palestine. I will make this solemn announcement before the United Nations General Assembly this coming September.…
I was wrong all along. This is indeed a brutal world, full of cruelty where only the strong survive. How did I delude myself into ever thinking otherwise? No one is going to save these people, and their bones will fertilize the land for those who will only spit on their memory.
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The daughter of Israel’s most famous writer, Amos Oz, calling on all soldiers to refuse to serve in Gaza. This may seem like nothing to some, or too late, or whatever, but it’s a tectonic shift there. And she’s right, of course.
חיילים, סדיר ומילואים, הורים של חיילים, סבים של חיילים, כבר אין דרך אחרת: סרבו לשרת בעזה. סרבו, סרבו, סרבו. החטופים ומשפחותיהם האומללות נבגדו בידי ממשלת ישראל. הרעב ההמוני בעזה הוא עובדה מחרידה ונחרצת. ההרג היומי במרכזי חלוקת המזון איננו הגנה עצמית אלא פשע מלחמה מזעזע. החוק…
How many times do people have to hear it: Pushing yourself to work hard or work out or exert yourself after Covid contributes to creating long Covid in many people. Covid is a MONSTER. Your body needs at least 6 weeks to heal, and that's if you were in good health to start with.…
Country music star Luke Bryan who stopped touring for nearly a month due to a mystery illness told the audience: “I got COVID. You can boo that s*** all you want, but I got it. I had to cancel some shows, and now I’m back. But I’m not 100%, because it’s still kicking my a**.”
Jessica: Do think one day people will look back and ask how America could let this this happen? Me: A lot of people are already asking that today.
Toyota is up +8% on the news of a 15% tariff. Why? It's simple. Ford, GM, Tesla, and all the other American manufacturers are going to be paying 50% more for their steel, 50% more for their copper, 25% more for their Canadian production, 25% more for their Mexican production,…
Oh my God, you total jackasses. EVERY country had a notable drop in life expectancy circa 2020. And you know why: COVID. Maybe you don't know that the USA had a WORSE drop in life expectancy, and started from a lower base to begin with!
Canada had a notable drop in life expectancy since 2020: "Being on the side of reality and facts is so against the narrative... they're willing to ignore an increase in all-cause mortality."
Translation for people who don’t speak Grifter: ‘Tariffs up’ - 🇺🇸s pay more. ‘Import prices down’ - not in the 🇺🇸 ‘Foreign producers bear the tax burden’ - you spelled “🇺🇸 buyers” wrong. “America enjoys the tariff revenues” - paid for by 🇺🇸s
🚨Tariffs up. Import prices down. Foreign producers bear the tariff burden. America enjoys the tariff revenues.
China now ~30% of global pharma deals by dollar value. Focus on the derivative and project forward 5-10 years... FT: Mark McClellan, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner who is now at Duke University: “China is running ahead of the US” in biotechnology…
FT: Chinese biotech shares surge as Big Pharma looks to license cancer treatments Sector returns are over 60% this year, with investors impressed by rapid pace of innovation ... Investors are seeing a trend of Chinese biotechs licensing their treatments to western…
France’s national news agency AFP says its freelancers in Gaza are starving and it fears they will die.
The Foreign Ministers of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and…
The @LemkinInstitute is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU…