Yuen Kwok-yung
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Live From Hong Kong
Live from HK with Prof Yuen Kwok-Yung: Masks and other lessons from Asia
Live from Hong Kong! Learn from the Experts #3: Rising Research Talent In response to the #COVID19 outbreak, governments have…
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Research
[International Journal of Epidemiology] COVID-19 epidemic: disentangling the re-emerging controversy about medical facemasks from an epidemiological perspective
International Journal of Epidemiology, 31 March 2020 Ka Hung Chan, Kwok-Yung Yuen COVID19 has prompted a raging debate on the…
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[Clinical Infectious Diseases] Simulation of the clinical and pathological manifestations of COVID-19 in golden Syrian hamster model: implications for disease pathogenesis and transmissibility
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 26 Mar 2020 Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan, Anna Jinxia Zhang, Shuofeng Yuan, Vincent Kwok-Man Poon, Chris Chung-Sing Chan,…
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In the News
HKU joins global partnership to develop COVID-19 vaccine
HKU has joined a global effort to develop a vaccine candidate against COVID-19, led the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). The…
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As coronavirus epidemic worsens globally, here’s how Hong Kong managed to contain it
11 Mar, 2020 UK health minister Nadine Dorries was diagnosed with coronavirus on Wednesday, 11 March, a day after France’s…
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Epidemic likely to persist all year, HKU professor Yuen Kwok-yung says containment will not wipe out virus
9 Mar, 2020 Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, a top infectious disease expert from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) who is…
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WHO-China Joint Mission on COVID-19 released fact-finding report with wide-ranging recommendations
From left Bruce AYLWARD, Team Lead, WHO-China Joint Mission on COVID-19, Senior Advisor to the Director-General, WHO Gabriel LEUNG,, Dean…
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Emergence of a novel human coronavirus threatening human health
Nature Medicine, 27 Feb 2020 Leo L. M. Poon & Malik Peiris Highlights A number of crucial knowledge gaps remain.…
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[SCMP] has Hong Kong learned the hard lessons of Sars or is it repeating the same mistakes?
Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, a top infectious disease expert from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) who is currently advising the…
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COVID-19 pneumonia: what has CT taught us?
Lancet Infectious Disease, 24 Feb 2020 Elaine Y P Lee, Ming-Yen Ng, Pek-Lan Khong Highlights CT has been an important…
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