Simple ideas to mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 epidemic on refugees with chronic diseases

Affiliations

¹ International Rescue Committee, Khalil Dabbas St, Amman, Jordan.
² 2Division of Global Emergency Medicine, Department of Clinical Emergency Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033 USA.

Muhammad Fawad et al. Confl Health. 2020.

. 2020 May 6:14:23.

doi: 10.1186/s13031-020-00277-x. eCollection 2020.

¹ International Rescue Committee, Khalil Dabbas St, Amman, Jordan.
² 2Division of Global Emergency Medicine, Department of Clinical Emergency Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033 USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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