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Global Health DPT | Seminar: “Epidemiology and control of COVID-19 in Hong Kong”

Scientific Fields
Diseases
Organisms
Applications
Technique
Date
22
Sep 2023
Time
12:00:00
Institut Pasteur, Rue du Docteur Roux, Paris, France
Address
Building: Lwoff building Room: Retrovirus meeting room
Location
2023-09-22 12:00:00 2023-09-22 13:00:00 Europe/Paris Global Health DPT | Seminar: “Epidemiology and control of COVID-19 in Hong Kong” Ben COWLING School of public health (Hong Kong, China) “Epidemiology and control of COVID-19 in Hong Kong” Friday 22 September 2023, at 12:00 pm Retrovirus meeting room – Lwoff building Hosted by Simon CAUCHEMEZ […] Institut Pasteur, Rue du Docteur Roux, Paris, France Simon Cauchemez simon.cauchemez@pasteur.fr

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Ben COWLING

School of public health (Hong Kong, China)

“Epidemiology and control of COVID-19 in Hong Kong”

Friday 22 September 2023, at 12:00 pm

Retrovirus meeting room – Lwoff building

Hosted by Simon CAUCHEMEZ (simon.cauchemez@pasteur.fr)

Abstract

In early 2020, Hong Kong was one of the first-affected locations outside of mainland China. Timely application of effective public health and social measures as part of a “Dynamic Zero Covid” strategy were able to successfully control a number of surges in daily case numbers in the first two years of the pandemic, keeping the incidence of confirmed cases below 1% of the population. Analysis of transmission dynamics reveals variation over time in epidemiological parameters that might previously have been imagined to remain constant over time, such as serial intervals and superspreading. Two COVID-19 vaccines have available since early 2021, including the BioNTech mRNA vaccine and an inactivated vaccine produced by Sinovac. While local vaccination coverage rose through 2021 into 2022, and mass vaccination provided an opportunity to relax public health measures in other parts of the world, the Hong Kong government continued to follow the “Dynamic Zero Covid” strategy. A large epidemic of Omicron BA.2 occurred in early 2022 resulting in more than 10,000 COVID deaths (>1 per 1000 population), with Hong Kong having the highest COVID-19 mortality rates in 2022 globally. While severity of Omicron has been milder around the world, we find that the intrinsic severity of this strain remains high. We found that both types of COVID vaccines provided very substantial protection against severe COVID, despite the inactivated vaccine stimulating much lower levels of neutralizing antibodies, while our community-based studies provide evidence on levels of infections and immunity and allow us to further explore the underlying mechanisms for similarities and differences in vaccine effectiveness including the assessment of correlates of protection.

Location

Building: Lwoff building
Room: Retrovirus meeting room
Address: Institut Pasteur, Rue du Docteur Roux, Paris, France