COVID-19: a plea to protect the older population

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¹ College of Medicine and Health & Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
² Department of Oncology and Haemato Oncology, University of Milan and European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Via Ripamonti 435, 20141, Milan, Italy. fedro.peccatori@unimi.it.
³ Department of Biomedical and Specialty Surgical Sciences, University of Ferrara (Ferrara) & Civitas Vitae Research Centre (Padova), Ferrara and Padova, Italy.

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Daniele Carrieri et al. Int J Equity Health. 2020.

. 2020 May 19;19(1):72.

doi: 10.1186/s12939-020-01193-5.

¹ College of Medicine and Health & Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
² Department of Oncology and Haemato Oncology, University of Milan and European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Via Ripamonti 435, 20141, Milan, Italy. fedro.peccatori@unimi.it.
³ Department of Biomedical and Specialty Surgical Sciences, University of Ferrara (Ferrara) & Civitas Vitae Research Centre (Padova), Ferrara and Padova, Italy.

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Authors declare they do not have competing interests.

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