Interpersonal and Structural Violence in the Wake of COVID-19

Affiliations

¹ Shamsher Samra and Dennis Hsieh are with the Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA. Todd Schneberk is with the Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA. Philippe Bourgois is with the Center for Social Medicine and Humanities, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles.

Editorial

Shamsher Samra et al. Am J Public Health. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;110(11):1659-1661.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305930.

¹ Shamsher Samra and Dennis Hsieh are with the Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA. Todd Schneberk is with the Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA. Philippe Bourgois is with the Center for Social Medicine and Humanities, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles.

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