Parental vaccine hesitancy is a major barrier to achieving high vaccination uptake among children, particularly in young children during the coronavir...Read more

To our best knowledge, this article presents a novel data set on Hong Kong's adolescents' attitude towards the COVID-19 vaccination, excluding their p...Read more

Background: Children with special educational needs (SEN) are more vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic with risk of poor mental wellbeing and chil...Read more

Many countries have implemented school closures due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has inevitably affected children's physical and me...Read more

Rising income inequality is strongly linked to health disparities, particularly in regions where uneven distribution of wealth and income has long bee...Read more

Background:The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is having a profound impact on the health and development of children worldwide. There is ...Read more

Introduction: Two doses of inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine CoronaVac cannot elicit high efficacy against symptomatic COVID-19, especially against the O...Read more

The mRNA-based BNT162b2 and inactivated whole-virus CoronaVac are two widely used COVID-19 vaccines that confer immune protection to healthy individua...Read more

A research team from HKUMed found that home is the primary route of COVID-19 transmission among Hong Kong children and adolescents. The study surveyed...Read more

Background: Pediatric COVID-19 studies exploring the relationships between NPS and saliva viral loads, clinical and immunological profiles are lacking...Read more

Despite concerns about the negative effects of social distancing and prolonged school closures on children’s lifestyle and physical activity (PA) duri...Read more

To determine the effects of nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) for coronavirus disease on pediatric hospitalizations for infection with respirator...Read more

Importance: Schools were closed intermittently across Hong Kong to control the COVID-19 outbreak, which led to significant physical and psychosocial ...Read more

As another wave of COVID-19 outbreak has approached in July 2020, a larger scale COVID-19 pediatric Asian cohort summarizing the clinical observations...Read more

Ethnic minorities account for 8% of the Hong Kong population, most are Filipino and Indonesian domestic helpers taking care of children and the elderl...Read more

Background: During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the implementation of social distancing and home confinement measures may elevate...Read more

Objectives: This study aimed to identify key factors affecting Healthcare workers (HCWs) perceived stress and risk of contracting COVID-19 among thems...Read more

Haematological and immunological data of children with COVID-19 infection is lacking. Between 21st January and 20th March 2020, 244 children who were ...Read more