Dave Knight

Physician - Occupational Medicine Specialist / Tropical Medicine / Epidemiologist - surfer, father, creator, outdoor enthusiast. Personal opinions

[Dave Knight @daveknightMD]

The Basics of Patient Safety How You Can Improve the Safety of Patient Care. - ppt download https://t.co/iR5dIL0VkV

Nice basic PPT on patient safety

[Dave Knight @daveknightMD]

@MaxduPreez south africa loves to plumb the depths!

[Dave Knight @daveknightMD]

via @NYTOpinion : Listening to fascinating podcast with Gary Marcus on #AI - confirms experience I have had - current AI outputs are not reliable nor truthful. Or at least not reliably truthful. AI research is a long way from simulating human intelligence https://t.co/GqopaZ1U5p

[Dave Knight @daveknightMD]

@MyHerdOfTurtles @GYamey Nope they are not as far as I know but SAHPRA has received a request to have the bivalent vaccine licensed

[Dave Knight @daveknightMD]

340,000 excess deaths estimated for South Africa during the pandemic - mostly directly related to #COVID19 infection. Thanks @tomtom_m and team for great work.

[Dave Knight @daveknightMD]

The @WHO would be far better served advising the government to get control of health workers unions that r poorly led and resistant 2 change, rooting out corruption long before honest people are murdered, ramping up nurse training & leveraging off the excellent private sector.

[Dave Knight @daveknightMD]

Another example of the @WHO being totally out of touch with reality. How can National Health Insurance work in a country (South Africa) with severe endemic corruption and a shattered public health system. Witness the murder of Babita Deokaran.
https://t.co/5il3vbm7WQ

[Dave Knight @daveknightMD]

South Africa spends 10 TIMES the amount on healthcare per capita than Rwanda yet has a much lower life expectancy. Its not a money problem its a governance, efficiency and corruption problem.

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[Jason Kindrachuk, PhD @KindrachukJason]

Excellent news as marking the start of the Tokomeza Ebola clinical trial for Sudan ebolavirus vaccines👏👏👏

[Dave Knight @daveknightMD]

And this is key - improving indoor air quality

“bundle of things we know could help reduce transmission almost invisibly, without really burdening individuals: higher indoor air quality standards, for instance.”

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via @NYTOpinion

300 Americans are now dying from Covid-19 every day, at a rough pace of about 100,000 per year.

The author also nicely explains how elderly immune systems don’t build proper durable immunity even with vaccination and need protection https://t.co/Y1SkykR0ag

[Dave Knight @daveknightMD]

and that even with up-to-date vaccination and bivalent boosting, infection represents a considerable threat to older adults

[Dave Knight @daveknightMD]

huge increase in flu in USA - and experience from South African winter / spring is that circulating flu and RSV virus infections are nasty - due to waning immunity after a 3 year pandemic and evolution in these viruses dont take flu lightly. Get vaccinated.

[Dave Knight @daveknightMD]

And this was estimated compliance with 90-90-90 targets for 2020 which very few countries achieved by the end of 2019.

[Dave Knight @daveknightMD]

Today is World Aids Day - these are the 95-95-95 global targets from @UNAIDS and @WHO over the next 7 years

[Dave Knight @daveknightMD]

@ejustin46 @shay_fleishon @PeacockFlu @LongDesertTrain @RajlabN @siamosolocani @JosetteSchoenma and see new research from @sigallab that shows virus mutates to become more pathogenic over time in an immunocomrpomised host: https://t.co/ik1FXNsmEc

[Alex Sigal @sigallab]

We looked at whether #SARSCoV2 attenuates after extensive evolution in an immunosuppressed individual.

Submitted to medRxiv and available on https://t.co/rGaEB9GdmS while it gets screened. Bottom line is no.

It evolved to cause more cell death and cell fusion.

[Dave Knight @daveknightMD]

@LongDesertTrain we have seen this playbook before - rampant use of microbicides and viricides that drive resistance and pathogen evolution