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Comment
. 2020;51(7):574-575.
doi: 10.1159/000508088. Epub 2020 Jun 29.

Misleading Numbers: Is the Risk of Acute Kidney Injury with COVID-19 Truly This Low?

Samuel A Silver  1 , Edward G Clark  2 , Swapnil Hiremath  3
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Misleading Numbers: Is the Risk of Acute Kidney Injury with COVID-19 Truly This Low?

Samuel A Silver et al. Am J Nephrol. 2020.
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