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Risk Factors for Severe COVID-19 Illness in Healthcare Workers: Too Many Unknowns

Overview
Journal Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Specialties Health Services
Infectious Diseases
Nursing
Public Health
Date 2020 Apr 28
PMID 32336303
Citations 9
Authors
Pandora L Wander
Marika Orlov
Susan E Merel
Daniel A Enquobahrie
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