Letter to the Editor: Influence of Altitude on the Prevalence and Case Fatality Rate of COVID-19 in Peru

Affiliations

¹ Sociedad Científica de San Fernando, Lima, Peru.
² Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru.
³ Centro de Investigaciones Tecnológicas, Biomédicas y Medioambientales (CITBM), Callao, Peru.
⁴ Laboratoire de Hypoxie et Physiopathologie (HP2), Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.

Comment

Claudio Intimayta-Escalante et al. High Alt Med Biol. 2020 Dec.

. 2020 Dec;21(4):426-427.

doi: 10.1089/ham.2020.0133. Epub 2020 Aug 14.

¹ Sociedad Científica de San Fernando, Lima, Peru.
² Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru.
³ Centro de Investigaciones Tecnológicas, Biomédicas y Medioambientales (CITBM), Callao, Peru.
⁴ Laboratoire de Hypoxie et Physiopathologie (HP2), Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.

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