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-The **Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table** is self-described as “a group of scientific experts and health system leaders who evaluate and report on emerging evidence relevant to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], to inform Ontario’s response.” They claim to integrate information from “existing scientific tables, Ontario’s universities and agencies, and the best global evidence.”((//About Us.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Retrieved December 13, 2021, from https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/about/))
+The **Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table (OST)** is self-described as “a group of scientific experts and health system leaders who evaluate and report on emerging evidence relevant to the [[:COVID-19 pandemic]], to inform Ontario’s response.” They claim to integrate information from “existing scientific tables, Ontario’s universities and agencies, and the best global evidence.”((//About Us.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Retrieved December 13, 2021, from https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/about/))
 Canadian news outlets and Ontario provincial, regional and municipal governments defer almost exclusively to the instructions and statements provided by the various working groups of the Table.((//Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table | News, Videos & Articles.// Global News; Corus Entertainment Inc. Retrieved January 6, 2022, from https://archive.ph/gzMxp)) The group is largely responsible for draconian and dangerous measures such as lockdowns, forced school and business closures, social distancing, mandatory mask-wearing, mass testing of the healthy, suppression of safe and effective medicines and healthy activities, and reckless mass-vaccination of adults and children.((Crawley, M. (2022, January 6). //As Omicron sweeps across Ontario, Doug Ford’s government braces for impact.// CBC News; CBC/Radio-Canada. https://archive.ph/j7cYn)) ((Behavioural Science Working Group. (2021, December 23). //Ask Ontario’s Science Table: Omicron Edition.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Slide-Deck_Ask-the-SAT_20211223-3.pdf))
-[[Canuck Law]], an investigative blog written by [[Ronnie Lempert]], contains a wealth of excellent research into the table, also summarized in //[[Inside The Ontario Science Table: The "Independent" Group Pulling Ford's Strings]]//.((Lempert, R. P. A. (2021). //Inside The Ontario Science Table: The “Independent” Group Pulling Ford’s Strings.// Amazon. Independent. https://archive.ph/th7Id)) ((//Ontario Science Table, UN/WHO-IHR.// Canuck Law. Retrieved May 2, 2022, from https://archive.ph/jrcgT))
+[[:Canuck Law]], an investigative blog written by [[:Ronnie Lempert]], contains a wealth of excellent research into the table, also summarized in //[[Inside The Ontario Science Table: The "Independent" Group Pulling Ford's Strings]]//.((Lempert, R. P. A. (2021). //Inside The Ontario Science Table: The “Independent” Group Pulling Ford’s Strings.// Amazon. Independent. https://archive.ph/th7Id)) ((//Ontario Science Table, UN/WHO-IHR.// Canuck Law. Retrieved May 2, 2022, from https://archive.ph/jrcgT))
-The group works closely with the [[Ontario COVID-19 Bioethics Table]].((//Ontario COVID-19 Bioethics Table.// University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. Retrieved May 5, 2022, from https://archive.ph/MADth))
+The group works closely with the [[:Ontario COVID-19 Bioethics Table]].((//Ontario COVID-19 Bioethics Table.// University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. Retrieved May 5, 2022, from https://archive.ph/MADth))
 ===== Conflicts of Interest =====
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 Members of the Table have received significant funding to study the effects of the restrictions they helped put in place.
-For example, [[Linda Mah]], the Co-Chair of the Mental Health Working Group, received money from the [[Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care]] to "support a research study to assess mental health outcomes in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic," focusing primarily on isolation measures.((Mah, L. (2021). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Declaration-of-Interest_Mental-Health-Working-Group_Linda-Mah_20210827.pdf)) Similarly, [[Paula Rochon]], Chair of the Congregate Care Setting Working Group, received funding to study the implementation of "family presence policies in Ontario long-term care homes" and "Understanding the burden and health system impact of loneliness and social isolation in older adults
+For example, [[:Linda Mah]], the Co-Chair of the Mental Health Working Group, received money from the [[:Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care]] to "support a research study to assess mental health outcomes in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic," focusing primarily on isolation measures.((Mah, L. (2021). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Declaration-of-Interest_Mental-Health-Working-Group_Linda-Mah_20210827.pdf)) Similarly, [[:Paula Rochon]], Chair of the Congregate Care Setting Working Group, received funding to study the implementation of "family presence policies in Ontario long-term care homes" and "Understanding the burden and health system impact of loneliness and social isolation in older adults
 in Canada".((Rochon, P. (2021, May 27). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://web.archive.org/web/20220108230028/https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Declaration-of-Interest_Congregate-Care-Setting-Working-Group_Paula-Rochon_20210527.pdf)) [[Pat Armstrong]] received similar funding.
 ==== Antimicrobial Resistance ====
-A number of members of the table are strong proponents of [[antimicrobial resistance]] policies, which involve reducing and limiting the use of antibiotics.
+A number of members of the table are strong proponents of [[:antimicrobial resistance]] policies, which involve reducing and limiting the use of antibiotics.
 ==== Globalism ====
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-While the mandate of the Table is claimed to be providing guidance related to the [[COVID-19]] health crisis, several of the members have close ties to supra-national organizations and global agenda policies that are not necessarily consistent with the preferences of the voting Canadian public.
+While the mandate of the Table is claimed to be providing guidance related to the [[:COVID-19]] health crisis, several of the members have close ties to supra-national organizations and global agenda policies that are not necessarily consistent with the preferences of the voting Canadian public.
-This includes several direct affiliations with the [[World Health Organization]], and advocacy for the [[United Nations]]' [[Sustainable Development Goals]] in the case of [[Christopher Mushquash]] and [[Scott Weese]].((//High-Level Political Forum 2021 (HLPF 2021) .:. Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform.// United Nations. Retrieved January 23, 2022, from https://archive.ph/OqNeU)) ((//About Us.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Retrieved January 23, 2022, from https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/about/#mckenzie-kwame)) ((//Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research.// Lakehead University. Retrieved January 26, 2022, from https://archive.ph/HJsfG)) Additionally, [[Scott Weese]] and [[Isha Berry]] are advocates for the [[One Health]] concept of unified health between humans, animals and nature in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.((Ontario Veterinary College. (2020, October 22). //U of G infectious disease expert named Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Fellow.// University of Guelph. https://archive.ph/PGBej)) ((Ontario Veterinary College. (2021, November 3). //Why A One Health Approach Is Vital In Pandemic Management.// University of Guelph. https://archive.ph/luBix))
+This includes several direct affiliations with the [[:World Health Organization]], and advocacy for the [[:United Nations]]' [[:Sustainable Development Goals]] in the case of [[:Christopher Mushquash]] and [[:Scott Weese]].((//High-Level Political Forum 2021 (HLPF 2021) .:. Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform.// United Nations. Retrieved January 23, 2022, from https://archive.ph/OqNeU)) ((//About Us.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Retrieved January 23, 2022, from https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/about/#mckenzie-kwame)) ((//Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research.// Lakehead University. Retrieved January 26, 2022, from https://archive.ph/HJsfG)) Additionally, [[:Scott Weese]] and [[:Isha Berry]] are advocates for the [[One Health]] concept of unified health between humans, animals and nature in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.((Ontario Veterinary College. (2020, October 22). //U of G infectious disease expert named Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Fellow.// University of Guelph. https://archive.ph/PGBej)) ((Ontario Veterinary College. (2021, November 3). //Why A One Health Approach Is Vital In Pandemic Management.// University of Guelph. https://archive.ph/luBix))
 ===== Controversy =====
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 ==== Conflicting Advice on School Closures ====
-The [[Toronto Sun]] reported that Science Table member [[David Fisman]] was retained by the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario to provide an opposing opinion on school reopenings in a document dated September 2020. Fisman served on the science table at the same time. It’s a situation that one leading expert says is a potential conflict of interest and Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s office calls “deeply concerning.”
+The [[:Toronto Sun]] reported that Science Table member [[:David Fisman]] was retained by the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario to provide an opposing opinion on school reopenings in a document dated September 2020. Fisman served on the science table at the same time. It’s a situation that one leading expert says is a potential conflict of interest and Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s office calls “deeply concerning.”
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-“Where a person receives payment for speaking on behalf of a special interest group, it would almost certainly be appropriate to declare this as a potential conflict of interest when working in roles that are even slightly related,” explained Dr. Euzebiusz Jamrozik, from the bioethics research centre at the [[University of Oxford]], in an email to the Sun.((Furey, A. (2021, January 26). //Science table member paid by teacher union for arguing against school reopenings.// Toronto Sun. https://archive.ph/pXWkP))
+“Where a person receives payment for speaking on behalf of a special interest group, it would almost certainly be appropriate to declare this as a potential conflict of interest when working in roles that are even slightly related,” explained Dr. Euzebiusz Jamrozik, from the bioethics research centre at the [[:University of Oxford]], in an email to the Sun.((Furey, A. (2021, January 26). //Science table member paid by teacher union for arguing against school reopenings.// Toronto Sun. https://archive.ph/pXWkP))
-This conflicted affiliation is further concerning because the [[Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan]] (with which the ETFO is surely associated) is a member organization of the [[World Economic Forum]],((//Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.// World Economic Forum. Retrieved January 20, 2022, from https://archive.ph/arl0l)) and holds financial stakes in several companies that benefit financially from the maintaining of online learning and mandatory masking and vaccination policies.((Ronnie. (2021, March 19). //FCLT Global; World Economic Forum; CPPIB; Ontario Teachers.// Canuck Law. https://canucklaw.ca/fclt-global-world-economic-forum-cppib-ontario-teachers/)) Those companies include [[Mastercard]], [[BlackRock]], [[Blackstone]], [[3M]] (who manufactures masks), [[pharmaceutical_companies:Abbott]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Johnson & Johnson]], and many others.((//Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Writ of Memorandus.// (2021, September 10). Peoples of the Salmon. https://peoplesofthesalmon.net/files/ONTARIO-TEACHERS-PENSION-PLAN-WRIT-OF-MANDAMUS.pdf))
+This conflicted affiliation is further concerning because the [[:Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan]] (with which the ETFO is surely associated) is a member organization of the [[:World Economic Forum]],((//Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.// World Economic Forum. Retrieved January 20, 2022, from https://archive.ph/arl0l)) and holds financial stakes in several companies that benefit financially from the maintaining of online learning and mandatory masking and vaccination policies.((Ronnie. (2021, March 19). //FCLT Global; World Economic Forum; CPPIB; Ontario Teachers.// Canuck Law. https://canucklaw.ca/fclt-global-world-economic-forum-cppib-ontario-teachers/)) Those companies include [[:Mastercard]], [[:BlackRock]], [[:Blackstone]], [[:3M]] (who manufactures masks), [[pharmaceutical_companies:Abbott]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Johnson & Johnson]], and many others.((//Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Writ of Memorandus.// (2021, September 10). Peoples of the Salmon. https://peoplesofthesalmon.net/files/ONTARIO-TEACHERS-PENSION-PLAN-WRIT-OF-MANDAMUS.pdf))
 ==== Alleged Political Influence ====
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 | [[Zainab Abdurrahman]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines  | Funded by [[pharmaceutical_companies:Pfizer]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Merck]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Novartis]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Sanofi]] and other pharmaceutical companies.  |
 | [[Samantha Akingbola]]  | Observer of the Modelling Consensus Table  | -  |
-| [[Upton Allen]]  | Behavioural Science Working Group  | Funded by [[pharmaceutical_companies:Roche]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Pfizer]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Merck]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Abbott]], and other pharmaceutical companies.  |
+| [[Upton Allen]]  | Co-Chair of the Table; Behavioural Science Working Group  | Funded by [[pharmaceutical_companies:Roche]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Pfizer]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Merck]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Abbott]], and other pharmaceutical companies.  |
 | [[Vanessa Allen]]  | Member  | Medical Director of the Provincial COVID-19 Diagnostic Network for [[Ontario Health]].((//COVID-19 Test Collection and Analysis.// (2021, October 12). Ontario Health. https://www.ontariohealth.ca/COVID-19/testing-analysis))  |
 | [[Nisha Andany]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | Funded by [[pharmaceutical_companies:Janssen]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:GlaxoSmithKline]] and [[pharmaceutical_companies:Gilead Sciences]].((Andany, N. (2021, August 23). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Declaration-of-Interest_Drugs-and-Biologics-Clinical-Practice-Guidelines-Working-Group_Nisha-Andany_20210823.pdf)) ((Andany, N. (2021, May 25). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Declaration-of-Interest_Drugs-and-Biologics-Clinical-Practice-Guidelines-Working-Group_Nisha-Andany_20210525.pdf)) ((Andany, N. (2021, February 8). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Declaration-of-Interest_Drugs-and-Biologics-Clinical-Practice-Guidelines-Working-Group_Nisha-Andany.pdf))  |
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 | [[Karen Born]]  | Secretariat  | [[Choosing Wisely Canada]]  |
 | [[Peter Braunberger]]  | Mental Health Working Group  | [[Northern Ontario School of Medicine]]  |
-| [[Adalsteinn Brown]]  | Co-chair of the Table and Behavioural Science Working Group  | On the Board of Directors for [[Ontario Health]],((//Board of Directors.// Ontario Health. Retrieved May 15, 2021, from https://archive.ph/vQXKp)) Dean of the [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]],((//Adalsteinn Steini Brown | Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation.// Dalla Lana School of Public Health; University of Toronto. Retrieved January 22, 2022, from https://archive.ph/hR1oD)) and director of the Institute for Pandemics at the [[University of Toronto]].((//Institute for Pandemics.// Dalla Lana School of Public Health; University of Toronto. Retrieved January 21, 2022, from https://archive.ph/Lham0)) |
+| [[Adalsteinn Brown]]  | Former Co-chair of the Table; Behavioural Science Working Group  | On the Board of Directors for [[Ontario Health]],((//Board of Directors.// Ontario Health. Retrieved May 15, 2021, from https://archive.ph/vQXKp)) Dean of the [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]],((//Adalsteinn Steini Brown | Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation.// Dalla Lana School of Public Health; University of Toronto. Retrieved January 22, 2022, from https://archive.ph/hR1oD)) and director of the Institute for Pandemics at the [[University of Toronto]].((//Institute for Pandemics.// Dalla Lana School of Public Health; University of Toronto. Retrieved January 21, 2022, from https://archive.ph/Lham0)) |
 | [[Kevin Antoine Brown]]  | Congregate Care Setting Working Group, Modelling Consensus Table  | [[public_health_agencies:Public Health Ontario]]  |
 | [[Judy Buchan]]  | Behavioural Science Working Group  | Director of Public Health Emergencies at the [[Region of Peel]].  |
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 | [[William Ciccotelli]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | [[McMaster University]], [[St. Mary’s General Hospital]], [[Grand River General Hospital]]  |
 | [[Lauren Cipriano]]  | Modelling Consensus Table  | [[Ivey Business School]], [[University of Western Ontario]], [[World Health Organization]], [[US Veterans Health Administration]], [[US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services]], the [[US Institute for Clinical and Economic Review]], [[Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Heath]]  |
+| [[Eyal Cohen]]  | External Author  | [[Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement]] (CFHI), [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]] (CIHR), [[CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research]], [[Center for Policy, Outcomes and Prevention]] (CPOP), [[Children's Hospital at Westmead]], [[Commonwealth Fund]], [[Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Health Children]], [[Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences]], [[Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health]], [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]] (OST), [[Ontario Public Drug Program]], [[Provincial Council of Maternal and Child Health]], [[PSI Foundation]], [[Queen's University]], [[SickKids]], [[SickKids Research Institute]], [[University of Toronto]], [[University of Toronto Data Sciences Institute]] (DSI)((//Eyal Cohen | SickKids Directory.// SickKids. Retrieved October 18, 2022, from https://archive.ph/xlMVA)) ((Ng, V., Science, M., Feld, J., Shah, H., Bitnun, A., Bourns, L., Campigotto, A., Cohen, E., Gubbay, J., Jimenez-Rivera, C., Orkin, J., Razak, F., Saunders, A., Sayed, B., Salvadori, M., Yaffe, B., Zygmunt, A., & Allen, U. (2022). //Severe Acute Hepatitis in Children of Unknown Etiology.// Science Briefs of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://doi.org/10.47326/ocsat.2022.03.63.1.0))  |
 | [[Kim Corace]]  | Behavioural Science Working Group  | [[The Royal]], [[University of Ottawa]], [[Carleton University]], [[Canadian Psychological Association]]  |
 | [[Deborah Cook]]  | Member  | [[McMaster University]], [[St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton]]  |
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 | [[Antonina Maltsev]]  | Secretariat and Project Manager  | [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]], [[University of Toronto]], [[North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies]], [[World Bank]]  |
 | [[Doug Manuel]]  | Member and Behavioural Science Working Group  | [[University of Ottawa]], [[Ottawa Hospital Research Institute]]  |
-| [[Robert Maunder]]  | Mental Health Working Group  | Received $498,900.00 from the [[Government of Canada]] via [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]] (CIHR) from a COVID-19 Research Fund “that will go towards setting up the [[COVID-19 Mathematical Modelling Rapid Response Task Force]].  |
+| [[Robert Maunder]]  | Mental Health Working Group  | Received $498,900.00 from the [[Government of Canada]] via [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]] (CIHR) from a COVID-19 Research Fund “that will go towards setting up the [[COVID-19 Mathematical Modelling Rapid Response Task Force]]."  |
 | [[Roisin McElroy]]  | Secretariat  | [[St. Joseph’s Health Centre]], [[Unity Health Toronto]], [[University of Toronto]]  |
 | [[Allison McGeer]]  | Member  | Funded by [[pharmaceutical_companies:Sanofi]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Merck]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Pfizer]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Moderna]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:GlaxoSmithKline]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Seqirus]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Medicago]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Janssen]], and [[pharmaceutical_companies:AstraZeneca]].((See [[Allison McGeer]] page for citations.))  |