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. 2020 Oct 6;173(7):587-589.
doi: 10.7326/M20-2684. Epub 2020 Jun 3.

Where Is the ID in COVID-19?

Rochelle P Walensky  1 , Daniel P McQuillen  2 , Sara Shahbazi  3 , John D Goodson  1
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Where Is the ID in COVID-19?

Rochelle P Walensky et al. Ann Intern Med. .
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
County-level ID physician density for the United States. The average ID physician density in the United States is 1.76 per 100 000 persons. Counties with ID physicians above this national average density are shown in blue, those with below national average density are shown in red, and counties with no ID physicians are shown in white. ID = infectious disease.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Confirmed COVID-19 cases reported per 100 000 population, by county, 12 May 2020. COVID-19 = coronavirus disease 2019.
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