HONG KONG, China — Hong Kong microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung has done battle with some of the world's worst threats, including the SARS virus he helped isolate and identify. And he has a warning.
HONG KONG, China — Hong Kong microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung has done battle with some of the world's worst threats, including the SARS virus he helped isolate and identify. And he has a warning.Another pandemic is inevitable and could exact damage far worse than Covid-19, according to the soft-spoken scientist sometimes thought of as Hong Kong's answer to top US health expert Anthony Fauci.
That experience informed Yuen's approach to the Covid-19 pandemic, which ripped through Hong Kong due to lax vaccination, particularly among the elderly.'We benefited from the 20 years of study that followed the SARS outbreak,' he wrote in his book.'Until factors beyond our ability to stop or overcome — fear, ignorance, poor messaging, and deliberate misinformation — the measures were effective' in buying Hong Kong time until the vaccines were developed.
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