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 ===== Affiliations ===== ===== Affiliations =====
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 +==== College Square Medical Clinic ====
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 +Arnason practices medicine at College Square Medical Clinic in Ottawa, Ontario.((//CPSO - Doctor Details.// [[College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario]]. Retrieved January 22, 2022, from https://doctors.cpso.on.ca/DoctorDetails/Arnason-Trevor-Thor/0272892-95633))
  
 ==== Government of Nova Scotia ==== ==== Government of Nova Scotia ====
  
-Arnason previously worked as a Regional Medical Officer of Health in Halifax, Nova Scotia from 2016-2018,((Arnason, T. (2021). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Declaration-of-Interest_Behavioural-Science-Working-Group_Trevor-Arnason.pdf)) where he worked on several health promotion initiatives and co-led responses to multiple vaccine preventable disease outbreaks - including one of the largest measles outbreaks in Canada in recent years.((Ronnie. (2021, April 22). //Who’s Behind The Ontario Science Table? A Look At Their Partners And Members.// Canuck Law. https://archive.ph/w2Ifw)) ((Berry, S. (2017, March 29). //Measles outbreak in Nova Scotia: what you need to know.// CBC News. https://archive.ph/sMb1X)) ((Mehta, D. (2017, February 24). //Canadians urged to update vaccines after mumps, measles cases reported.// The Globe and Mail. https://archive.ph/4suey))+Arnason previously worked as a Regional Medical Officer of Health in Halifax, Nova Scotia from 2016-2018,((Arnason, T. (2021). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Declaration-of-Interest_Behavioural-Science-Working-Group_Trevor-Arnason.pdf)) where he worked on several health promotion initiatives and co-led responses to multiple vaccine preventable disease outbreaks - including one of the largest [[measles]] outbreaks in Canada in recent years.((Ronnie. (2021, April 22). //Who’s Behind The Ontario Science Table? A Look At Their Partners And Members.// Canuck Law. https://archive.ph/w2Ifw)) ((Berry, S. (2017, March 29). //Measles outbreak in Nova Scotia: what you need to know.// CBC News. https://archive.ph/sMb1X)) ((Mehta, D. (2017, February 24). //Canadians urged to update vaccines after mumps, measles cases reported.// The Globe and Mail. https://archive.ph/4suey))
  
 ==== Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table ==== ==== Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table ====
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 ==== Ottawa Public Health ==== ==== Ottawa Public Health ====
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-=== COVID-19 === 
  
 Arnason is employed as Associate Medical Officer of Health at [[Ottawa Public Health]], where he has worked since January 2019.((//Trevor Arnason.// LinkedIn. Retrieved January 21, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-arnason-0252a4b5/)) Arnason is employed as Associate Medical Officer of Health at [[Ottawa Public Health]], where he has worked since January 2019.((//Trevor Arnason.// LinkedIn. Retrieved January 21, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-arnason-0252a4b5/))
  
-In this position, Arnason has played a leadership role in Ontario's [[COVID-19 pandemic]] response. He authored a memo to Ottawa physicians, specialists and nurse practitioners notifying them that patients with medical exemptions to the [[COVID-19 vaccines]] will be required to receive and use a provincially-issued [[QR code]] "to access certain business and settings."((Goulet, M., & Arnason, T. (2022, January 11). //Medical Exemptions to the COVID-19 Vaccine: How to submit forms.// Ottawa Public Health. https://archive.ph/r58zF)) +=== COVID-19 ===
  
-Back in January 2021, Arnason appeared in a commercial for [[COVID-19 vaccines]] in his position at AMOH.((Ottawa Public Health(2021, January 27). //Why get vaccinated against COVID-19? DrTrevor Arnason, Associate Medical Officer of Healthexplains...// Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/ottawahealth/videos/why-get-vaccinated-against-covid-19-dr-trevor-arnason-associate-medical-officer-/682977669047955/))+In this position, Arnason has played a leadership role in Ontario'[[COVID-19 pandemic]] response. His salary increased by over $100,000.00 CAD to $234,252.18 in the first year of the crisis, up from $129,035.90 in 2019.((//Trevor Arnason salary at City Of Ottawa.// SunshineListStatsRetrieved January 21, 2022, from https://archive.ph/yaOJx))  
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 +He authored a memo to Ottawa physicians, specialists and nurse practitioners notifying them that patients with medical exemptions to the [[COVID-19 vaccines]] will be required to receive and use a provincially-issued [[QR code]] "to access certain business and settings."((Goulet, M., & Arnason, T. (2022January 11)//Medical Exemptions to the COVID-19 Vaccine: How to submit forms.// Ottawa Public Health. https://archive.ph/r58zF)) 
  
 This could be described as a [[vaccine passport]] for the "unvaccinated", lending credence to the notion that COVID-19 policies are geared in part towards the institutionalization of [[digital identification]]. Shockingly, Arnason's letter concludes by directing physicians and nurse practitioners for "referral and specialist consultation support" to the [[Canadian Immunization Research Network]] (CIRN), which is funded by [[COVID-19]] [[vaccine]] manufacturers [[pharmaceutical_companies:Pfizer]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:GlaxoSmithKline]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:VBI Vaccines]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Novartis]] and [[pharmaceutical_companies:Sanofi]], as well as the [[public_health_agencies:Public Health Agency of Canada]] and the [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]].((//Partners.// (2013, January 30). Canadian Immunization Research Network. https://archive.ph/durb0)) ((Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN). //CIRN Annual Report 2019–2020.// Retrieved December 22, 2021, from https://www.campfire.wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=ar.2019-20.final_.pdf)) This could be described as a [[vaccine passport]] for the "unvaccinated", lending credence to the notion that COVID-19 policies are geared in part towards the institutionalization of [[digital identification]]. Shockingly, Arnason's letter concludes by directing physicians and nurse practitioners for "referral and specialist consultation support" to the [[Canadian Immunization Research Network]] (CIRN), which is funded by [[COVID-19]] [[vaccine]] manufacturers [[pharmaceutical_companies:Pfizer]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:GlaxoSmithKline]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:VBI Vaccines]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Novartis]] and [[pharmaceutical_companies:Sanofi]], as well as the [[public_health_agencies:Public Health Agency of Canada]] and the [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]].((//Partners.// (2013, January 30). Canadian Immunization Research Network. https://archive.ph/durb0)) ((Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN). //CIRN Annual Report 2019–2020.// Retrieved December 22, 2021, from https://www.campfire.wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=ar.2019-20.final_.pdf))
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 +Back in January 2021, Arnason appeared in a commercial for [[COVID-19 vaccines]] in his position at AMOH.((Ottawa Public Health. (2021, January 27). //Why get vaccinated against COVID-19? Dr. Trevor Arnason, Associate Medical Officer of Health, explains...// Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/ottawahealth/videos/why-get-vaccinated-against-covid-19-dr-trevor-arnason-associate-medical-officer-/682977669047955/)) In an interview with [[CTV News]], he stated that his region would be setting up vaccination clinics in schools, like with previous school vaccination programs. He also said "it's important that all residents receive the COVID-19 vaccine, including children."((Pringle, J. (2021, May 5). //“Right in our wheelhouse”: Ottawa Public Health planning to administer COVID-19 vaccine to children 12 and up.// CTV News; Bell Media. https://archive.ph/9xABq))
  
 In December 2021, Arnason retweeted U.S. [[Center for Disease Control and Prevention]] Director [[Rochelle Wolensky]]'s false statement that the [[COVID-19 vaccines]] "have undergone the most comprehensive & intense safety monitoring system in U.S. history. To date, no serious safety concerns have been identified."((Wolensky, R. (2021, December 10). //#COVID19 vaccines are safe for children 5-11. They have undergone the most comprehensive & intense safety monitoring system in U.S. history. To date, no serious safety concerns have been identified. Vaccination is the best way to protect children from COVID-19.// [Tweet]. Twitter. https://archive.ph/jcebT)) In December 2021, Arnason retweeted U.S. [[Center for Disease Control and Prevention]] Director [[Rochelle Wolensky]]'s false statement that the [[COVID-19 vaccines]] "have undergone the most comprehensive & intense safety monitoring system in U.S. history. To date, no serious safety concerns have been identified."((Wolensky, R. (2021, December 10). //#COVID19 vaccines are safe for children 5-11. They have undergone the most comprehensive & intense safety monitoring system in U.S. history. To date, no serious safety concerns have been identified. Vaccination is the best way to protect children from COVID-19.// [Tweet]. Twitter. https://archive.ph/jcebT))
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 ===== Education ===== ===== Education =====
  
-Arnason received is MD from the [[University of Toronto]], and did a combined residency in [[Public Health]] and Preventive Medicine and Family Medicine at the [[University of Ottawa]].((//Trevor Arnason.// LinkedIn. Retrieved January 21, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-arnason-0252a4b5/)) ((Ronnie. (2021, April 22). //Who’s Behind The Ontario Science Table? A Look At Their Partners And Members.// Canuck Law. https://archive.ph/w2Ifw))+Arnason received his MD from the [[University of Toronto]], and did a combined residency in [[Public Health]] and Preventive Medicine and Family Medicine at the [[University of Ottawa]].((//Trevor Arnason.// LinkedIn. Retrieved January 21, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-arnason-0252a4b5/)) ((Ronnie. (2021, April 22). //Who’s Behind The Ontario Science Table? A Look At Their Partners And Members.// Canuck Law. https://archive.ph/w2Ifw)) 
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 +===== Media ===== 
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 +Arnason appeared on an episode of [[CANVax]]'s Emerging Topics podcast to discuss how the Children’s Immunization Clinic was created and implemented in the beginning weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring infants would still receive their routine vaccinations soon after birth.((//Emerging Topics: Ep. 8: Children’s Immunization Clinic in Ottawa – A collaboration between healthcare partners to provide infant vaccination during COVID-19.// (2020, July 21). Libsyn; CANVax. https://emergingtopics.libsyn.com/childrens-immunization-clinic-in-ottawa-a-collaboration-between-healthcare-partners-to-provide-infant-vaccination-during-covid-19)) 
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 +The episode description includes a link to [[CHEO]] which is funded by [[Canadian National Railway]] (whose major shareholder is [[Bill Gates]]), [[Ericsson]], [[McDonald's]], and the [[Ottawa Police Service]].((//Sponsors.// CN Cycle for CHEO. Retrieved January 21, 2022, from https://archive.ph/3oMAi))
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