Quarantine

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Disease (Coomes, Leis, Gold), Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Division of Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine (Leis), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; Department of Medicine and Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (Leis), and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (Leis), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; Division of Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine (Gold), University Health Network, Toronto, Ont.
² Division of Infectious Disease (Coomes, Leis, Gold), Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Division of Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine (Leis), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; Department of Medicine and Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (Leis), and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (Leis), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; Division of Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine (Gold), University Health Network, Toronto, Ont wayne.gold@uhn.ca.

Eric A Coomes et al. CMAJ. 2020.

. 2020 Mar 30;192(13):E338.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.200393. Epub 2020 Mar 20.

¹ Division of Infectious Disease (Coomes, Leis, Gold), Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Division of Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine (Leis), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; Department of Medicine and Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (Leis), and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (Leis), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; Division of Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine (Gold), University Health Network, Toronto, Ont.
² Division of Infectious Disease (Coomes, Leis, Gold), Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Division of Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine (Leis), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; Department of Medicine and Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (Leis), and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (Leis), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; Division of Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine (Gold), University Health Network, Toronto, Ont wayne.gold@uhn.ca.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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