Specialist General Physician http://t.co/cAKhoi9EyL.B (Otago, NZ, 1983), FRACP (General Medicine, NZ, 1994)
Greymouth, New Zealand
Joined June 2012
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Australia making progress
"kinds of corruption risk in a rich country are not typically small scale bribes to low level officials, but in corrupt conduct that influences the creation of new laws and awarding of government business."
aph.gov.au/parliamentary_bus…
Corruption in global health: the open secret thelancet.com/journals/lance…
Departing surgeon says West Coasters not getting hospital they deserve | Otago Daily Times Online News odt.co.nz/news/national/depa…
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Regulating cannabis retail for public health over private profit onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Facing the option for the legalisation of cannabis use and supply in New Zealand: An overview of relevant evidence, concepts and considerations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in children aged 0 to 19 years in childcare facilities and schools after their reopening in May 2020, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. One secondary case per roughly 25 infectious school days
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CLOTH FACE COVERINGS FOR USE AS FACEMASKS DURING THE CORONAVIRUS (SARS-CoV-2) PANDEMIC: WHAT SCIENCE AND EXPERIENCE HAVE TAUGHT US cup.org/2ZMwhjU
Is there an adequate alternative to commercially manufactured face masks? A comparison of various materials and forms ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
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Fabric Face Masks: Which Fabrics Should The 3 Layers Of Mask Be Made Of?
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Influence of wearing time on efficacy of disposable surgical masks as microbial barrier scielo.br/scielo.php?script=…
“Many unknowns exist about human immune responses to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. SARS-CoV-2 reactive CD4+ T cells have been reported in unexposed individuals, suggesting pre-existing cross-reactive T cell memory in 20-50% of people”
science.sciencemag.org/conte…
Cloth masks have risks and may be beneficial in specific circumstances. Promoting cloth masks is irresponsible without an understanding of the reasons for increased risk of infection
“The rates of all infection outcomes were highest in the cloth mask arm”
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/…
Decision to use Face masks in preventing transmission of infections is not a simple decision. Who would have thought wearing a mask didn’t decrease the risk of surgical wound infection. 4.7% with mask, 3.5% without mask
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Chopping the tail: how preventing superspreading can help to maintain COVID-19 control medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
COVID19 transmission: We Need to Talk About Ventilation by @TheAtlantic link.medium.com/Nv3NpG3Hz8
Feline coronavirus characteristics suggests Coronavirus viability may be difficult to study
“serotype I FCoV hardly grows in tissue culture but, oral administration of faeces or gut homogenates from shedding cats leads to intestinal infection & viraemia”
microbiologyresearch.org/con…
Neutralizing and cross-reacting antibodies: implications for immunotherapy and SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Authors comment on precautions needed with development of COVID19 vaccine
Vaccine against Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus thelancet.com/journals/lanin…
Case definition of COVID-19 infection
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New Zealand’s national testing strategy for COVID-19 for June to August 2020
health.govt.nz/our-work/dise…
Need to be aware that over 1 out of 20 have an incubation period longer than 14 days.
Coronavirus border bungle: Review finds system was under 'extreme stress' stuff.co.nz/national/politic…