Transmission heterogeneity is a notable feature of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemics, tho...Read more

Background: Hong Kong followed a strict COVID-19 elimination strategy in 2020. We estimated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic responses on all-cause...Read more

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HKUMed researchers found a significant reduction in public hospital admissions and an increase in mortality, particularly from cardiovascular diseases...Read more

BACKGROUND: The initial cases of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)–infected pneumonia (NCIP) occurred in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in December 2019 an...Read more

專家估計武漢肺炎爆發源頭可能來自當地海鮮市場售賣的野生動物。冠狀病毒可以感染多種哺乳動物，包括人類、蝙蝠、駱駝、鳥、老鼠、兔子、刺猬、牛和豬。新病毒的嚴重性仍在觀察中，但目前認為比SARS和MERS輕微。專家擔心病毒可能會變異並通過濕市場售賣的野生動物供應鏈傳播。...

Controlling transmission in restaurants is an important component of public health and social measures for coronavirus disease. We examined the effect...Read more

Many locations around the world have used real-time estimates of the time-varying effective reproductive number (Rt) of COVID-19 to provide evidence o...Read more

The existing surveillance approaches and contact tracing identified around three quarters of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases during the thir...Read more

We report temporal patterns of viral shedding in 94 patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 and modeled COVID-19 infectiousness profiles from a se...Read more

A novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) causing severe acute respiratory disease emerged recently in Wuhan, China. Information on reported cases strongly indi...Read more

Superspreading events (SSEs) have characterised previous epidemics of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respira...Read more

Incubation period is an important parameter to inform quarantine period and to study transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. We conducted a syst...Read more

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused a heavy disease burden globally. The impact of process and timing of data collection on the...Read more

We report key epidemiologic parameter estimates for coronavirus disease identified in peer-reviewed publications, preprint articles, and online report...Read more

Background: Hong Kong maintained low circulation of SARS-CoV-2 until a major community epidemic of the omicron (B.1.1.529) sublineage BA.2 began in Ja...Read more