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. 2020 Dec 16:7:596583.
doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2020.596583. eCollection 2020.

Women and COVID-19: A One-Man Show?

Jef Van den Eynde  1 , Karen De Vos  2 , Kim R Van Daalen  3 , Wouter Oosterlinck  1
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Women and COVID-19: A One-Man Show?

Jef Van den Eynde et al. Front Cardiovasc Med. .
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; gender equality; human rights; public health; women.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Sex-disaggregated data (Source: Global Health 50/50, https://globalhealth5050.org/covid19/sex-disaggregated-data-tracker/, 15/08/2020) Data are reported from the date that sex-disaggregated data was last available. The map was created using R Statistical Software (version 4.0.2. 2020-06-22, Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria), “plotly” package.
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