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Comment
. 2020 Nov:83:75-76.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2020.08.046. Epub 2020 Sep 11.

Ethnicity and COVID-19 - A commentary on "World Health Oganization declares global emergency: A review of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19)" (Int J Surg 2020;76:71-6)

Thonmoy Dey  1 , Ankit Sinha  2
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Ethnicity and COVID-19 - A commentary on "World Health Oganization declares global emergency: A review of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19)" (Int J Surg 2020;76:71-6)

Thonmoy Dey et al. Int J Surg. 2020 Nov.
No abstract available

Keywords: BAME; COVID-19; Comorbidity; Disparities; Ethnicity; Public health.

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