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Watching the daily increase in Covid-19 cases in Hong Kong is scary. However, a more useful analysis is the ‘epidemic curve’, which looks at the date of symptom onset of cases rather than the date of case detection.
Dr Siddharth Sridhar, Specialist in Clinical Microbiology & Infection, looked at the main settings of Covid-19 transmission in Hong Kong (as of 20/2/2020)
臨床微生物學及傳染病學專科醫生 Dr Siddharth Sridhar分析了香港Covid-19傳播的主要情況（截至2020年2月20日）
Dr Siddharth Sridhar provides a brief overview on the infections with 2019-nCoV in Hong Kong as of Feb 6, 2020. Are they imported cases, local transmissions? And if locally transmitted how closely are the patients related?
Dr Siddharth Sridhar簡述了本港2019-nCoV病毒截至2020年2月6日的概況。這些感染個案是外來病例，還是本地傳播？ 如果是本地傳播，患者之間的關係有多緊密?
Dr Siddharth Sridhar分析了2019-nCoV的基本繁殖數量-一種衡量病原體的「傳染性」，以及它可能在社區中傳播的程度，並將其與早期階段的SARS和麻疹爆發進行比較。
Dr Siddharth Sridhar describes the basic reproduction number – a measure of how ‘infectious’ a pathogen is and how likely it is to spread through a community – for 2019-nCoV, and compares this with the early phases of the SARS and measles outbreaks.
Dr Siddharth Sridhar, looked at how stable coronaviruses are on a variety of environmental surfaces, and provides recommendations to prevent infection with 2019-nCoV.
Dr Siddharth Sridhar研究了冠狀病毒在各種環境表面上的穩定性，並提供了預防2019-nCoV感染的建議。
Here, I examined the data of 28 patients from 5 publications who had severe pneumonia due to 2019-nCoV requiring ICU admission and/or resulting in death.