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. 2020 Mar 23;192(12):E314-E318.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.200305. Epub 2020 Mar 6.

What can early Canadian experience screening for COVID-19 teach us about how to prepare for a pandemic?

Molly Lin  1 , Alina Beliavsky  1 , Kevin Katz  1 , Jeff E Powis  1 , Wil Ng  1 , Victoria Williams  1 , Michelle Science  1 , Helen Groves  1 , Mathew P Muller  1 , Alon Vaisman  1 , Susy Hota  1 , Jennie Johnstone  1 , Jerome A Leis  2
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What can early Canadian experience screening for COVID-19 teach us about how to prepare for a pandemic?

Molly Lin et al. CMAJ. .
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Competing interests: Jeff Powis reports grants from Gilead, outside of the submitted work. Helen Groves reports an honorarium received for presenting research at educational meeting sponsored by AbbVie, outside the submitted work. Susy Hota reports a grant from Finch Therapeutics, outside the submitted work. No other competing interests were declared.

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Distribution of person-of-interest cases across 8 hospitals in Toronto, Ontario (n = 135). Modified, with permission, from Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network.
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