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Editorial
. 2020 Dec 18;14(12):e0008954.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008954. eCollection 2020 Dec.

COVID-19 in the Americas and the erosion of human rights for the poor

Peter J Hotez  1   2   3   4   5 , Jorge A Huete-Perez  6 , Maria Elena Bottazzi  1   2
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COVID-19 in the Americas and the erosion of human rights for the poor

Peter J Hotez et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. .
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Conflict of interest statement

MEB and PJH are inventors of a low cost COVID19 vaccine for global health which was recently licensed by Baylor College of Medicine to a commercial third party for scale up and production.

Figures

Fig 1
Fig 1. Heat map of coronavirus cases in the Americas.
Cases per million people by country. Data source: https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data/tree/master/public/data, accessed August 31, 2020. Map template: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-cultural-vectors/50m-admin-0-countries-2/.
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