Ben Cowling @bencowling88
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🇭🇰🐒🦠 A 37-year-old man is in ICU after contracting B-virus from contact with monkeys in Kam Shan Country Park. B-virus is a simplexvirus transmitted by macaques. CHP says this is the first macaque-to-human B-virus case recorded in Hong Kong. info.gov.hk/gia/general/20…
Excellent commentary, Tim
There's a maxim in medicine: When you hear hoofbeats, look for horses, not zebras. That's useful to remember as we wait for more info on childhood illnesses in #China. This sounds more like the legacy of its zero Covid policy than a new disease threat. statnews.com/2023/11/23/sur…
The #Covid pandemic & our responses to it knocked many other respiratory bugs out of their normal seasonality. As we enter the 4th winter of the Age of Covid, it looks like they are heading back to their pre-pandemic patterns. statnews.com/2023/11/20/flu…
Happy to be in Hong Kong at a CONSISE revival meeting and #immunity2023 conference hosted by @hkumed. Thanks @bencowling88, Leo Poon, Malik Peiris for the invitation. Great to be back in Hong Kong after a few years. #COVID #PandemicPreparedness #Science
Happy to be in Hong Kong at a CONSISE revival meeting and #immunity2023 conference hosted by @hkumed. Thanks @bencowling88, Leo Poon, Malik Peiris for the invitation. Great to be back in Hong Kong after a few years. #COVID #PandemicPreparedness #Science
Fantastic opening to our 3-day international conference this morning #immunity2023 with many excellent presentations including opening talks by Malik Peiris and Maria Van Kerkove
If only as a real time bit of history from inside the room, I think more people should read Dominic Cummings' witness statement - there is a lot in there (115 pages), that is ill served by just looking at the drama and beef. A few random snippets. 1/ covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/upl…
There was an institutional opposition to masks because of "purist" scientists who wanted gold standard evidence.
OK. Look. I'm not a Dom fanboy. But several times I have asked in print why it wasn't the case that we reopened schools a week apart in the form of a cluster RCT. Here's the answer, of sorts. (tagging him, as a fanboy @Dominic2306 )
A quick plug for the FluTracking survey run by @HKU_SPH: a 10-second survey every Monday to gauge prevalence of flu-like illness. A very helpful data point—and the more participants, the better. Sign up link: flutracking.net/Join/HE
Purple sky in the distance tonight, looking south from Kowloon
Hong Kong 🇭🇰 Influenza weekly summary, Aug 13-19: Trend: Increasing / Summer Flu Season Hospital Admission Rates for Influenza: >0.43/10K (↑16%) Severe flu cases: 22 (vs. 24 prev week) Deaths: 11 (vs. 19 prev week) Specimens positivity rate: 9.83% (vs. 8.69% in prev week)
Packages of non-pharmaceutical interventions with complementary effects, such as masking, social distancing, and other measures, unequivocally reduced #COVID19 infections, our major new report has found: royalsociety.org/news/2023/08/n…
🚨Our MAJOR new @royalsociety report out TODAY Evidence shows COVID measures together = EFFECTIVE Key findings: ➡️Distancing/lockdowns=MOST EFFECTIVE measure 😷 FACEMASKS consistently found to be EFFECTIVE ➡️Strong evidence for contact tracing apps royalsociety.org/topics-policy/…
New research article> Comparative antibody and cell-mediated immune responses, reactogenicity, and efficacy of homologous and heterologous boosting with CoronaVac and BNT162b2 (Cobovax): an open-label, randomised trial thelancet.com/journals/lanmi… #COVID19
Interesting thread: Extrapolation of leaked crematorium data suggests excess Covid mortality in China of >1.5 million This is compatible with previous estimates and equates to a mortality rate closer to HK than Singapore By comparison US/UK 2-3X higher 1/4
Interesting thread: Extrapolation of leaked crematorium data suggests excess Covid mortality in China of >1.5 million This is compatible with previous estimates and equates to a mortality rate closer to HK than Singapore By comparison US/UK 2-3X higher 1/4
Since we're all stuck at home during the typhoon... Time for another podcast! Part 1 of "From Riches to Rags: The tale of the pandemic in Hong Kong" with HKU Professor @bencowling88! Out now on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/29fE5a… And Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fro…
🩳🕶️🎙️ New Tripperhead's Talk 'n' Tea podcast dropping next week! "From Riches to Rags: The tale of the pandemic in Hong Kong" with Professor @bencowling88! 🐹
Attention NIH-funded scientists with foreign sub-contracts. See new, onerous, reporting guidelines here. 😮😣 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/n…
Aaron Busch @tripperhead
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Sweary Aaron @TripperheadToo
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Joel Chan @kjoules
5K Followers 397 Following Random Hong Kong statistical tidbits and useless info. Enjoys a good Osaka-style okonomiyaki. Bluesky: @kjoules.org
David Owens @DrDOwens
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Tom Grundy @tomgrundy
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Dr Siddharth Sridhar @sid8998
6K Followers 582 Following Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept of Microbiology, HKU. Clinical virologist. Observer of emerging infections: COVID-19, rat hepatitis E and others.
Alvin Lum @alvinllum
39K Followers 3K Following Political reporter @mingpaocom, covering Hong Kong's political and justice system. RT = cares about, but not necessarily agrees.
Xinqi Su 蘇昕琪 @XinqiSu
75K Followers 2K Following @AFP HK correspondent / reach via [email protected] / Tweets are my own / RT not endorsement
Stephen McDonell @StephenMcDonell
103K Followers 1K Following China Correspondent BBC, formerly Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 如果你也曾经穿过那道看不见的界限并且在没有颜色的街道上找不到可以停留的地方请你一定回来告诉我。P.K.14 baffling bozos since the beginning.
Jerome Taylor @JeromeTaylor
54K Followers 6K Following Senior Editor, CNN Digital, Asia Pacific. Previously AFP in Hong Kong and Bangkok. Before that, The Independent. https://t.co/sghdt1X1tE
Jasnah Kholin - 8964 .. @wanderer_jasnah
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Danny Lee @AirEVthingTRNSP
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25K Followers 441 Following Lawyer & Hong Kong human rights activist | Hong Kong Law & Policy Substack | Former Hong Kong political prisoner, now continuing the fight in Washington, DC
Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski
143K Followers 2K Following Epidemiologist/mathematician. Co-director of @LSHTM_CEPR and @TEDFellow. Author of The Rules of Contagion. Views own.
Dr. Karen Grépin @KarenGrepin
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Antony Dapiran @antd
41K Followers 2K Following Writer/Lawyer/Photographer. Author of Walkley-nominated book “City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong” (@scribepub). Melbourne-born, HK-based.
Kris Cheng @krislc
55K Followers 3K Following Hong Kong journalist covering local politics, Greater China, diplomacy, archives, open data. Words @hkfp @foreignpolicy @diezeit @washingtonpost @voacantonese
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Aaron Busch @tripperhead
89K Followers 115 Following I watch and read the 🇭🇰 news so you don't have to. Subscribe to the Tripperhead Gazette for all the latest HK news: https://t.co/ghVTw00Xhf
Sweary Aaron @TripperheadToo
8K Followers 2K Following This account was permanently suspended by Twitter, yet here we are. More sweary version of @tripperhead. Most tweets are irresponsible given my platform.
Joel Chan @kjoules
5K Followers 397 Following Random Hong Kong statistical tidbits and useless info. Enjoys a good Osaka-style okonomiyaki. Bluesky: @kjoules.org
David Owens @DrDOwens
6K Followers 53 Following Dad, Doctor, Honorary Clinical Assistant Professor Family Medicine HKU, Co-founder OT&P. Views forged by two great port cities but remain my own. Hong Kong YNWA
Tom Grundy @tomgrundy
160K Followers 2K Following Editor-in-Chief/Founder @HKFP - Non-profit, 100% independent impartial #HK news since 2015. Alum: @LeedsUniMedia & @JMSCHKU. Views own. Not leaving. #PressingOn
Dr Siddharth Sridhar @sid8998
6K Followers 582 Following Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept of Microbiology, HKU. Clinical virologist. Observer of emerging infections: COVID-19, rat hepatitis E and others.
Alvin Lum @alvinllum
39K Followers 3K Following Political reporter @mingpaocom, covering Hong Kong's political and justice system. RT = cares about, but not necessarily agrees.
Stephen McDonell @StephenMcDonell
103K Followers 1K Following China Correspondent BBC, formerly Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 如果你也曾经穿过那道看不见的界限并且在没有颜色的街道上找不到可以停留的地方请你一定回来告诉我。P.K.14 baffling bozos since the beginning.
Danny Lee @AirEVthingTRNSP
28K Followers 7K Following ⚡️🚗⚙️⛓️✈️ Bloomberg @business @TheTerminal @BloombergTV @BloombergRadio @hyper_drive. 彭博社新闻的记者. 🗣️ my own. [email protected]
Old China Bland (香�.. @OldChinaBland
10K Followers 763 Following ''Because I'm an old China hand, but more boring'' Now on the bsky as https://t.co/ODbF9v0C9M
Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski
143K Followers 2K Following Epidemiologist/mathematician. Co-director of @LSHTM_CEPR and @TEDFellow. Author of The Rules of Contagion. Views own.
Dr. Karen Grépin @KarenGrepin
15K Followers 5K Following Associate Professor, School of Public Health @HKUniversity, economics and health systems. 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇭🇰
Bloom Lab @jbloom_lab
48K Followers 1K Following Lab studying molecular evolution of proteins and viruses. Affiliated with @fredhutch @HHMINEWS @uwgenome. @jbloomlab@bsky
Linsey Marr https://w.. @linseymarr
67K Followers 127 Following Engineering professor @virginia_tech with expertise in airborne transmission of viruses, air quality, nanotechnology. Avid recreational athlete.
Mary Hui @maryhui
32K Followers 3K Following Reporter @qz. Industrial policies and strategies. Newsletter on the global industrial contest: https://t.co/jq7rmljcvH
Brandon @b3108
2K Followers 1K Following Hiking/trails,🚴🏻amateur, observer, satirist. Bilingual-ish. RTs & 'likes' ≠ endorsements unless clearly stated. What's left are my personal views. 🇦🇺🏉🇭🇰⛰
HKU Medicine @hkumed
19K Followers 376 Following Committed to advancing research, learning and teaching medicine and health, for the betterment of humanity. #medicalresearch #medicaleducation #hkumed135
Leo Poon @world_epidemic
2K Followers 196 Following Virologist & Chair Professor, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong；Co-director, HKU-Pasteur Research Pole; MD of C2i.
Bill Hanage @BillHana.. @BillHanage
68K Followers 467 Following Assoc Prof at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Gooner. Currently cosplaying Dr Rieux in some weird re-enactment of La Peste. Tweets are personal
michaelturton @michaelturton
5K Followers 1K Following Playing boardgames. Writing about Taiwan every Monday in the Taipei Times.
Transit 🇭🇰 Jam @transit_jam
491 Followers 418 Following Unofficial X of https://t.co/43NyPSevC5, Hong Kong’s trusted independent newspaper. Urban transport, road safety, worker rights. News tips James 94104988
Donald J. Trump Posts.. @TrumpDailyPosts
463K Followers 12K Following Trump Posts From Truth Social & More So They Can Be Shared With Millions On X. Make Sure To Tap (🔔Notify+) So Tweets Cannot Be Suppressed. No Affiliation.
Will Hayward @willhayward_nz
1K Followers 781 Following Dean of Social Sciences at @lingnanuni. HK and Aotearoa/NZ. Runs silly distances. Ask me about the Tinworth Trail. Tweets are mine alone. He/him.
Figen @TheFigen_
1.8M Followers 11 Following PhD musicology/Teacher/Turkish woman/ Posting #humor #art #history #cool #Motivation #Memes content. DM for credit - and X is a King!
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Leon @leondanon
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Catherine Hyams @cathyams
318 Followers 273 Following Respiratory Doctor, Clinical Research Fellow @BristolUni | PhD in Respiratory Infection | PI AvonCAP Study | Pulm Infection SAG @btsrespiratory
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7K Followers 689 Following Senior epidemiologist - COVID-19 vaccines @UKHSA. PhD in the immunology of respiratory viral infections @imperialcollege.
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TOMORROW April 24, 1-2 PM ET, Ben Cowling, Prof. and Chair of Epi. at @HKU_SPH, will be presenting "Influenza vaccination strategies in older adults". Regular #IDEpi24 attendees, note this is a WEDNESDAY seminar. Register here: hsph.me/idepi24
Trigger h/t @trishgreenhalgh @bencowling88
Lidia Morawska is one of the world’s top aerosol scientists. She’d contacted WHO to offer help in ending an out of control global pandemic. What she’d said was scientifically correct. Conly remains in post, making decisions that affect all of us.
Trigger: h/t @trishgreenhalgh @bencowling88
Lidia Morawska is one of the world’s top aerosol scientists. She’d contacted WHO to offer help in ending an out of control global pandemic. What she’d said was scientifically correct. Conly remains in post, making decisions that affect all of us.
WHO publishes a global technical consultation report introducing updated terminology for pathogens that transmit through the air. This report is the result of an extensive, multi-year collaborative effort and reflects shared agreement on terminology between WHO, experts and four…
Fantastic WHO paper here on AIRBORNE pathogens and how to mitigate them. Uses the word AIRBORNE, => pathogens transmit through the AIR (simples). Shame a different WHO group are about to tell us all to stop using the word airborne bc "too complicated". 🙄 iris.who.int/bitstream/hand…
New preprint: Reconstructed influenza A/H3N2 infection histories reveal variation in incidence and antibody dynamics over the life course medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/12
COVID generated an unprecedented volume of questions - but also new data and methodology. To bring together these developments in inference of disease dynamics in the modern era, @dr_anne_cori and I put together a new review (including 21 case studies): osf.io/preprints/osf/…
INQ000312305_0002 – Paper from Hi He (Guangzhou Medical University), Peng Wu (WHO Collaboration Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Control & University of Hong Kong) et al, titled Temporal dynamics in viral shedding & transmissibility of COVID-19 covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/inq0…
FYI @bencowling88 your 18th Mar 2020 paper just got cited by @covidinquiryuk ! Based on viral kinetics: ‘We estimated that 44% of transmission could occur before first symptoms of the index’ @cymru_inquiry medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Join us for these #IDEpi24 speakers after spring break! 3/21 @ewrigleyfield 3/28 @ambilinski 4/4 Michael Hudgens, UNC Chapel Hill 4/11 @HarrisProgram 4/18 @kakape 4/24 @bencowling88 5/2 Susan Huang (UC Irvine) 5/9 Carl Bergstrom (UWash) hsph.me/idepi24
We applied assay to examine response to repeat flu vaccination—important topic, as some studies suggest reduced effectiveness of repeated vaccination thelancet.com/journals/lanre… We analyzed samples from DRIVE study in Hong Kong led by @sarahcobey @bencowling88 @nancyleung_hku et al
In new study led by Andrea Loes, we develop sequencing-based neutralization assay that measures replicate curves for hundreds of virus-serum pairs per 96-well plate (see image below) biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We apply assay to characterize response to repeat influenza vaccination
Options 2024! Are you ready! Submit your abstract by April 5th in these categories optionsxii2024.org.uk/abstract-submi… so you can visit this amazing place… Brisbane queensland.com/au/en/places-t… or sneak off to youtu.be/iI-JdDA_8A8?si… Amidst amazing research in flu, COVID and RSV
Will HK be considering adding Novavax as a choice of COVID-19 vaccine, seeing how it’s on par with mRNA in efficacy, has potentially greater durability, and may also allay vaccine hesitancy and boost uptake by virtue of it being a non-mRNA vaccine? @HKU_SPH @bencowling88
Re: Novavax, numbers are small (~4% of doses), but NVX vaccine effectiveness (76%) may be higher than mRNA (40-45%). Note: values unadjusted, so they are subject to confounding and slightly different from VE in the report.
The pointless and ugly new font has arrived at the harbour.
It's a bit late in the day, but good to see an epidemiologist (@bencowling88) speaking up about the Worobey market paper. Why didn't any epidemiologists raise objections earlier? A case of the Emperor's New Clothes? scmp.com/news/china/sci…
Had a wonderful evening chatting with someone who had no idea who "Tripperhead" was. Breath of fresh air to hear "I'm sorry, I've never heard of Tripperhead" while her husband was railing "HOW DID YOU LIVE THROUGH THE PANDEMIC NOT KNOWING TRIPPERHEAD?" Love her to bits.
@JeremyFoub @Drmartyufml Il ne faut pas confondre la virulence d'un variant (propriété intrinsèque du virus), et le risque clinique (qui dépend aussi de l'immunité des individus). En l'absence d'immunité acquise, Omicron a la même virulence que le variant originel x.com/bencowling88/s…
New preprint on Omicron severity just out. Key findings – intrinsic severity of Omicron is similar to ancestral Wuhan strain, but effective (observed) severity of Omicron is reduced in people who have been vaccinated and/or previously infected (1/16) medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
@Yann25639740 @BiologyAwesome Non, la virulence des variants Omicron est la même que celle du variant originel. À ne pas confondre avec le risque clinique (qui dépend aussi de l'immunité préalablement acquise par l'infecté)... x.com/bencowling88/s…
New preprint on Omicron severity just out. Key findings – intrinsic severity of Omicron is similar to ancestral Wuhan strain, but effective (observed) severity of Omicron is reduced in people who have been vaccinated and/or previously infected (1/16) medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
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