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. 2020 Aug;111(4):488-489.
doi: 10.17269/s41997-020-00370-x. Epub 2020 Jun 29.

No more "social distancing" but practice physical separation

Debasree Das Gupta  1 , David W S Wong  2
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No more "social distancing" but practice physical separation

Debasree Das Gupta et al. Can J Public Health. 2020 Aug.
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