Robert Ho

MBBS HKU / UCL▫️ Student Ambassador @hkumed ▫️ Director @ Asian Medical Students' Association Hong Kong ▫️ Neuroscience & public health 🧠⚕

[Robert Ho @robertlho]

I love Sol5.6 because it helps me get things done with reasonable token allowances on the pro plan. Great for scaling your productivity - and nice to see the huge leap in reasoning abilities!

[HKU Medicine @hkumed]

#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

[Dr Siddharth Sridhar @sid8998]

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

[Robert Ho @robertlho]

How did travel measures affect the early spread of #COVID19? We compile the evidence.

Our @pandemics_brdrs systematic review on the effectiveness of #COVID19 travel-related measures, published in @GlobalHealthBMJ: https://t.co/Ig2ENOpefk
Thank you @KarenGrepin for mentoring!

[Robert Ho @robertlho]

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 @hkumed for the arrangement.

[Robert Ho @robertlho]

@TheTunLab @hkumed Congrats Dr Tun!

[The Lancet @TheLancet]

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. https://t.co/40sM7f2nbS

[Kialo Edu @KialoEdu]

Welcome to Kialo Edu, the tool used by educators world-wide to teach critical thinking and facilitate thoughtful classroom debate. Kialo Edu is a free version of Kialo, the world's most popular argument mapping site, customized for classroom use. Try it! https://t.co/c2U5ZEYcz7

[HKU Medicine @hkumed]

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.
https://t.co/cmvibtACF2

[HKU Medicine @hkumed]

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."

[Gabriel Leung @gmleunghku]

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

[HKU Medicine @hkumed]

"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_SPH on @hkumed Microbiology's findings.

#COVID19
https://t.co/r3heJbfiVf

[Dr. Karen Grépin @KarenGrepin]

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

[Francis Chan MD @FrancisKLChan]

World 1st Case

[Dr. Karen Grépin @KarenGrepin]

Many jurisdictions have implemented intra-country travel bans (i.e. between states or provinces) to fight #COVID-19. But are they legal? cc @profplum8 @adamkams @CatWorsnop @summermarion

[Billy Quilty @BQuilty]

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 @samclifford and myself) is now available: https://t.co/xZGtSsswNt

[ABC News @ABC]

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?” https://t.co/XACljcApBe

[Dr. Karen Grépin @KarenGrepin]

Great new resource

[Aidan Smith @aidan_smx]

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.

[HKU Medicine @hkumed]

Have we discovered the cure for #COVID19?

Prof Ivan Hung joined @AsiaSocietyHK to share the latest on the virus:

https://t.co/dbqKUlWUe1