Letter from China

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.

Wei-Jie Guan et al. Respirology. 2020 Jun.

. 2020 Jun;25(6):657-658.

doi: 10.1111/resp.13817. Epub 2020 Apr 8.

¹ State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; coronavirus; laboratory testing; prevention; therapy; transmission.

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National policies for paediatric universal BCG vaccination were associated with decreased mortality due to COVID-19.
Ebina-Shibuya R, Horita N, Namkoong H, Kaneko T. Ebina-Shibuya R, et al. Respirology. 2020 Aug;25(8):898-899. doi: 10.1111/resp.13885. Epub 2020 Jun 18. Respirology. 2020. PMID: 32558034 Free PMC article.

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