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. 2021 Jan 8:8:602982.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.602982. eCollection 2020.

The Elderly and the COVID 19 Crisis: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold, in Isolation and Total Indifference

Dominique Heymann  1   2
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The Elderly and the COVID 19 Crisis: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold, in Isolation and Total Indifference

Dominique Heymann. Front Public Health. .
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; anxiety; depression disorders; elderly; health authorities.

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The author declares 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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