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Derivation of a Contextually-Appropriate COVID-19 Mortality Scale for Low-Resource Settings Cover

Derivation of a Contextually-Appropriate COVID-19 Mortality Scale for Low-Resource Settings

Annals of Global Health
Volume 87 (2021): Issue 1
By: J. L. Pigoga,  Y. O. Omer and  L. A. Wallis  
Open Access
|Mar 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3278 | Journal eISSN: 2214-9996
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