Age, source, and future risk of COVID-19 infections in two settings of Hong Kong and Singapore

OBJECTIVE: To explore and compare the age, source and future risk of COVID-19 infection in Hong Kong SAR China and Singapore as of March 5, 2020. RESULTS: We find significant difference in age patterns of confirmed cases in these 2 localities early in the pandemic. CONCLUSION: We highlight the poten...

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Autores principales: Zhu, Shuying, Tao, Jun, Gao, Huizhi, He, Daihai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7356138/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32660556
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05178-z
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Tao, Jun
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description OBJECTIVE: To explore and compare the age, source and future risk of COVID-19 infection in Hong Kong SAR China and Singapore as of March 5, 2020. RESULTS: We find significant difference in age patterns of confirmed cases in these 2 localities early in the pandemic. CONCLUSION: We highlight the potential importance of population age structure in confirmed cases, which should be considered in evaluation of the effectiveness of control effort in different localities.
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spelling pubmed-73561382020-07-13 Age, source, and future risk of COVID-19 infections in two settings of Hong Kong and Singapore Zhu, Shuying Tao, Jun Gao, Huizhi He, Daihai BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: To explore and compare the age, source and future risk of COVID-19 infection in Hong Kong SAR China and Singapore as of March 5, 2020. RESULTS: We find significant difference in age patterns of confirmed cases in these 2 localities early in the pandemic. CONCLUSION: We highlight the potential importance of population age structure in confirmed cases, which should be considered in evaluation of the effectiveness of control effort in different localities. BioMed Central 2020-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7356138/ /pubmed/32660556 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05178-z Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Tao, Jun
Gao, Huizhi
He, Daihai
Age, source, and future risk of COVID-19 infections in two settings of Hong Kong and Singapore
title Age, source, and future risk of COVID-19 infections in two settings of Hong Kong and Singapore
title_full Age, source, and future risk of COVID-19 infections in two settings of Hong Kong and Singapore
title_fullStr Age, source, and future risk of COVID-19 infections in two settings of Hong Kong and Singapore
title_full_unstemmed Age, source, and future risk of COVID-19 infections in two settings of Hong Kong and Singapore
title_short Age, source, and future risk of COVID-19 infections in two settings of Hong Kong and Singapore
title_sort age, source, and future risk of covid-19 infections in two settings of hong kong and singapore
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7356138/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32660556
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05178-z
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