HKU in the news (Apr 30-May 6)

May 6 HKU microbiologist Dr Ho Pak-leung warns washable masks should not be used by those visiting high-risk places like hospitals, clinics and elderly homes (Professor Ho Pak-leung) (link)

May 6 HKU microbiologist Dr Ho Pak-leung believes that number of people tested for virus should increase from 6,000 to 20,000 (Professor Ho Pak-leung) (link)

May 5 HKU Med AI Lab develops an algorithm, based on concepts commonly employed in economics and meteorology, which can yield a high level of accuracy for identifying COVID-19 on patients' chest radiographs (link)

May 4 HKU microbiologist Professor Yuen kwok-yung supports phased lifting of social distancing but warns against relaxing all measures at once (Professor Yuen Kwok-yun) (link)

May 3 HKU microbiologist Professor Yuen kwok-yung reveals that every HK resident government will get a washable face mask from HK government (Professor Yuen Kwok-yun) (link)

May 1 HKU microbiologist Dr Ho Pak-leung thinks the government should classify COVID-19 as an occupational disease with scientific evidence showing there are infected cases in high-risk working environments (Professor Ho Pak-leung) (link)

Apr 30 HKU Public Health decides to use its dashboard that tracks the real-time reproductive number, an up-to-date measure of the coronavirus’ transmission rate with too few new Covid-19 cases  (link)