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Scientific consensus on the COVID-19 pandemic: we need to act now
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- Alwan, N. A., Burgess, R. A., Ashworth, S., Beale, R., Bhadelia, N., Bogaert, D., Dowd, J., Eckerle, I., Goldman, L. R., Greenhalgh, T., Gurdasani, D., Hamdy, A., Hanage, W. P., Hodcroft, E. B., Hyde, Z., Kellam, P., Kelly-Irving, M., Krammer, F., Lipsitch, M., McNally, A., McKee, M., Nouri, A., Pimenta, D., Priesemann, V., Rutter, H., Silver, J., Sridhar, D., Swanton, C., Walensky, R. P., Yamey, G., & Ziauddeen, H.
- Venue
- The Lancet
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-10
- Volume
- 396
- Issue
- 10260
- Pages
- e71-e72
- ISSN
- 0099-5355 (ISSN-L)
- 0140-6736
- OpenAlex
- W3093162398
- Cited by
- 268
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 9.31
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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