Adverse events of special interest and mortality following vaccination with mRNA (BNT162b2) and inactivated (CoronaVac) SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in Hong Kong: A retrospective study

• Carlos King Ho Wong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carlos King Ho Wong, Kristy Tsz Kwan Lau

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Centre for Safe Medication Practice and Research, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, School of Clinical Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks, Hong Kong SAR, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6895-6071

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• Kristy Tsz Kwan Lau ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carlos King Ho Wong, Kristy Tsz Kwan Lau

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Centre for Safe Medication Practice and Research, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

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• Xi Xiong,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Centre for Safe Medication Practice and Research, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9418-7448

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• Ivan Chi Ho Au,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Centre for Safe Medication Practice and Research, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5904-8322

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• Francisco Tsz Tsun Lai,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Safe Medication Practice and Research, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks, Hong Kong SAR, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9121-1959

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• Eric Yuk Fai Wan,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Safe Medication Practice and Research, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, School of Clinical Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks, Hong Kong SAR, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6275-1147

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• Celine Sze Ling Chui,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks, Hong Kong SAR, China, School of Nursing, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

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• Xue Li,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Safe Medication Practice and Research, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4836-7808

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• Esther Wai Yin Chan,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Safe Medication Practice and Research, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks, Hong Kong SAR, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7602-9470

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• Le Gao,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Safe Medication Practice and Research, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9349-6599

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• Franco Wing Tak Cheng,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Safe Medication Practice and Research, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7818-1575

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• Sydney Chi Wai Tang,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6862-1941

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• Ian Chi Kei Wong

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wongick@hku.hk

  Affiliations Centre for Safe Medication Practice and Research, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks, Hong Kong SAR, China, Centre for Medicines Optimisation Research and Education, Research Department of Practice and Policy, UCL School of Pharmacy, University College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8242-0014

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