The 2019-nCoV pandemic in the global south: A Tsunami ahead

Monica Malta^{1

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3}, Anne W Rimoin⁴, Nicole A Hoff⁴, Steffanie A Strathdee⁵

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Department of Social Science, National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (DCS-ENSP/FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, United States.
⁵ Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States.

Monica Malta et al. EClinicalMedicine. 2020.

. 2020 May 19:23:100384.

doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100384. eCollection 2020 Jun.

Monica Malta^{1

2

3}, Anne W Rimoin⁴, Nicole A Hoff⁴, Steffanie A Strathdee⁵

¹ Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Department of Social Science, National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (DCS-ENSP/FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, United States.
⁵ Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States.

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Conflict of interest statement

We declare no competing interests.

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