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. 2020 Jun 20;395(10241):e110-e111.
doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31357-X. Epub 2020 Jun 11.

Have deaths from COVID-19 in Europe plateaued due to herd immunity?

Lucy C Okell  1 , Robert Verity  1 , Oliver J Watson  1 , Swapnil Mishra  1 , Patrick Walker  1 , Charlie Whittaker  1 , Aris Katzourakis  2 , Christl A Donnelly  1 , Steven Riley  1 , Azra C Ghani  1 , Axel Gandy  3 , Seth Flaxman  3 , Neil M Ferguson  4 , Samir Bhatt  5
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Have deaths from COVID-19 in Europe plateaued due to herd immunity?

Lucy C Okell et al. Lancet. .

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    [No authors listed] [No authors listed] Lancet. 2020 Jul 4;396(10243):26. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31420-3. Epub 2020 Jun 19. Lancet. 2020. PMID: 32569578 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
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  • Host or pathogen-related factors in COVID-19 severity?
    Gortázar C, Del-Río FJR, Domínguez L, de la Fuente J. Gortázar C, et al. Lancet. 2020 Oct 31;396(10260):1396-1397. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32215-7. Lancet. 2020. PMID: 33129391 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
  • Host or pathogen-related factors in COVID-19 severity? - Authors' reply.
    Okell LC, Verity R, Katzourakis A, Volz EM, Watson OJ, Mishra S, Walker P, Whittaker C, Donnelly CA, Riley S, Ghani AC, Gandy A, Flaxman S, Ferguson NM, Bhatt S. Okell LC, et al. Lancet. 2020 Oct 31;396(10260):1397. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32212-1. Lancet. 2020. PMID: 33129392 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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