The coronavirus 2019-nCoV epidemic: Is hindsight 20/20?

Monica Malta^{1

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3}, Anne W Rimoin⁴, Steffanie A Strathdee⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Department of Social Science, National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (DCS-ENSP/FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
⁵ Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, USA.

Monica Malta et al. EClinicalMedicine. 2020.

. 2020 Mar 3:20:100289.

doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100289. eCollection 2020 Mar.

Monica Malta^{1

2

3}, Anne W Rimoin⁴, Steffanie A Strathdee⁵

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Department of Social Science, National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (DCS-ENSP/FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
⁵ Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, USA.

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