Globally,the COVID-19 pandemic brings different challenges to the impacted countries.To combat this pandemic,different strategies need to be tailored and implemented in countries with different situations.First,in cou...Globally,the COVID-19 pandemic brings different challenges to the impacted countries.To combat this pandemic,different strategies need to be tailored and implemented in countries with different situations.First,in countries with an ongoing explosion of the outbreak(i.e.the USA,Spain,and Italy),strategies suggested by the World Health Organization(WHO)which have been proven useful in China should be adopted for implementation.Secondly,countries in the regions that are still at the early stages of the outbreak(i.e.,the Africa region,where many countries have only found imported cases)should further strengthen travel restrictions to reduce the risk of imported cases as well as the risk of developing local transmission.Furthermore,countries that have achieved great success in COVID control(i.e.China,South Korea,and Singapore)should continue implement the successful strategies and further roll-out strengthened new strategies to prevent new imported cases.展开更多
Recent reports of an American woman of mixed race cured of HIV through stem cell transplant suggest ground-breaking progress on the human immunodeficiency virus“HIV”war front as it marks significant progress in effo...Recent reports of an American woman of mixed race cured of HIV through stem cell transplant suggest ground-breaking progress on the human immunodeficiency virus“HIV”war front as it marks significant progress in efforts to find a cure for the disease.As presented at the recent Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections,the cured patient was discovered in the ongoing USA-supported stem cell research study led by Dr.Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins University and Dr.Yvonne Bryson of the University of California Los Angeles(UCLA).展开更多
基金This studywas supported by theNational Nature Science Foundation of China(81903371)National Key Research and Development Program of China(2017YFE0103800),NIMH(R34MH119963)the special fund for COVID-19 of Guangdong(2020KZDZX1047).
文摘Globally,the COVID-19 pandemic brings different challenges to the impacted countries.To combat this pandemic,different strategies need to be tailored and implemented in countries with different situations.First,in countries with an ongoing explosion of the outbreak(i.e.the USA,Spain,and Italy),strategies suggested by the World Health Organization(WHO)which have been proven useful in China should be adopted for implementation.Secondly,countries in the regions that are still at the early stages of the outbreak(i.e.,the Africa region,where many countries have only found imported cases)should further strengthen travel restrictions to reduce the risk of imported cases as well as the risk of developing local transmission.Furthermore,countries that have achieved great success in COVID control(i.e.China,South Korea,and Singapore)should continue implement the successful strategies and further roll-out strengthened new strategies to prevent new imported cases.
文摘Recent reports of an American woman of mixed race cured of HIV through stem cell transplant suggest ground-breaking progress on the human immunodeficiency virus“HIV”war front as it marks significant progress in efforts to find a cure for the disease.As presented at the recent Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections,the cured patient was discovered in the ongoing USA-supported stem cell research study led by Dr.Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins University and Dr.Yvonne Bryson of the University of California Los Angeles(UCLA).