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The gut microbiome is known to interact with infection and immunity, such as immune response after BCG vaccine and COVID-19 disease prognosis. Investigators are thus interested to learn whether certain gut microbiome composition can be prognostic indicators for adverse event occurrence and vaccine efficacy.
我最近在YouTube頻道上看到這條在2020年12月17日發佈的視頻，聲稱說明有關COVID-19疫苗的功效和風險。該視頻的內容非常不準確且具有誤導性。 令我震驚的是，該視頻已吸引了超過三十萬觀看者，其中有幾位評論者表示同意偽科學。
While SARS-CoV2 has been previously reported to exist in lung tissue in a 78-year-old patient who died of unexpected cardiac arrest when ready for discharge after COVID-19 hospitalisation, recently the first evidence of SARS-CoV2 infection in heart muscle cells has been reported in a case from Brazil and which is supported by evidence from other reports.
Pneumonia is the second leading cause of death in Hong Kong as of 2019, with annually increasing death rates.
Dr Siddharth綜合了21個病例報告，並分析了目前1689名Covid-19肺炎患者的臨床特徵，以及2198名患者的人口統計學數據。
Dr Siddharth analysed the clinical characteristics of 1,689 #COVID19 patients from 21 publications, and the demographics of 2,198 2019nCoV patients.
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）