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. 2020 Feb;61(2):55-57.
doi: 10.11622/smedj.2020018. Epub 2020 Feb 13.

Outbreak of COVID-19 - an urgent need for good science to silence our fears?

Lionel Hon Wai Lum  1 , Paul Anantharajah Tambyah  1
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Outbreak of COVID-19 - an urgent need for good science to silence our fears?

Lionel Hon Wai Lum et al. Singapore Med J. 2020 Feb.

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Diagram shows the timeline of events in China, in Singapore and globally. COVID-19: coronavirus disease 2019; WHO: World Health Organization
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