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In 2014, after being named Teacher of the Year, my supervisor told me if I said I was gay in public I would be "shot in the head." I was told I would be fired if I did not bring her all of my private mail from home to read. (more)

NEW: Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old protester who was pushed by two Buffalo police officers, has a fractured skull and is not able to walk, according to a statement his lawyer sent CNN today.

Have we discovered the cure for #COVID19? Prof Ivan Hung joined Asia Society Hong Kong Center 亞洲協會香港中心 to share the latest on the virus: youtu.be/XAiNSRgVzpc

Cute propaganda. In reality Bezos's mommy and daddy gave him $245,573 to stop Amazon from failing in 1995, but you'd never know it from listening to our right-wing mainstream media that blames poverty on personal failure and attributes wealth to personal virtue.

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Navy vet who clashed with federal officers in Portland says he wants to use attention on him "to refocus this whole discussion back to Black Lives Matter." “If I had been a black veteran...do you think I would have gotten as much attention as I did?” abcn.ws/39rIu16

An 8-day quarantine combined with a PCR test on day 7 can reduce the number of infectious persons entering a country by 94%, similar to the 99% reduction provided by a 14-day quarantine: Our new pre-print (led by Sam Clifford and myself) is now available: cmmid.github.io/topics/covid19…

Many jurisdictions have implemented intra-country travel bans (i.e. between states or provinces) to fight #COVID-19. But are they legal? cc Kelley Lee @adamkams @CatWorsnop Summer Marion

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Big news out of Hong Kong: Colleagues at HKU Medicine claim to have documented first case of COVID-19 re-infection.

"The #reinfection didn't cause disease, so that's the first point. The second thing is ... whether the patient mounted a neutralizing #antibody response to the first infection," said Prof Malik Peiris HKU Public Health on HKU Medicine Microbiology's findings. #COVID19 statnews.com/2020/08/24/fir…

Just out: COVID-19 vaccine trials primarily assess prevention of virologically confirmed disease; NOT infection or transmission. An “effective” vax confers protection from disease but might not reduce spread...1/5

How can a #mobileapp help #stroke patients and their caregivers? Dr Gary Lau Kui-kai, Director of #HKUStroke, explains how this one-stop platform "can holistically manage a range of problems that our #stroke patients and their caregivers encounter."

In the early months of #COVID19, Dr. Gary Lau, and a team of researchers from #HKUStroke found that patients were presenting to the hospital with symptoms of a #stroke on average 60 minutes later. medium.com/hkumed/a-covid…

NEW—Interim analysis of Russian #COVID19 #vaccine phase 3 trial involving nearly 20,000 participants suggests a two-dose regimen has an efficacy of 91.6% against symptomatic #COVID19. No serious adverse events were deemed to be associated with vaccination. hubs.li/H0FQWFS0

Privileged and humbled to receive my first dose #COVID19Vaccination today. And to think this is a mere 14 months after #SARSCoV2 genome publication.. Bravo science!! Kudos to HKU Medicine for the arrangement.

How did travel measures affect the early spread of #COVID19? We compile the evidence. Our Pandemics and Borders Project systematic review on the effectiveness of #COVID19 travel-related measures, published in BMJ Global Health: gh.bmj.com/content/bmjgh/… Thank you Dr. Karen Grépin for mentoring!

Whenever people tell me they are reluctant to get jabbed, I ask them what they are worried about. Often, we already have fairly good answers to many queries/ concerns. Here's a summary of common reasons for 'waiting & seeing' and my responses to them. #COVID19Vaccine

#Meningitis is a medical emergency which can quickly become fatal within hours and result in lifelong disability. Every year, millions of new cases are reported worldwide. We could help #DefeatMeningitis even by simply learning more about it. #WorldMeningitisDay