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. 2020 Nov 21;396(10263):1632-1633.
doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32171-1. Epub 2020 Nov 6.

Institutional versus home isolation to curb the COVID-19 outbreak - Authors' reply

Annelies Wilder-Smith  1 , Alex R Cook  2 , Borame L Dickens  2
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Institutional versus home isolation to curb the COVID-19 outbreak - Authors' reply

Annelies Wilder-Smith et al. Lancet. .
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