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The media interest in our experts’ views and research has been phenomenal. From mid-January 2020, news agencies, television and radio stations, newspapers, magazines, journals and other outlets from all five continents have been contacting and quoting HKUMed on a daily basis. More than 10,000 media stories and news clips featured our Faculty by the end of the summer. The sheer volume of this coverage is breathtaking, reaching billions of readers/viewers worldwide, especially considering HKUMed is a small faculty by the standard of other international institutions of comparable quality. But we have given priority to providing evidence- based information to as many people as possible in order to promote a rational response to this pandemic. In the News 27