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Comment
. 2021 May 15;397(10287):1804-1805.
doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00895-3.

Global COVID-19 vaccine roll-out: time to randomise vaccine allocation?

Samuel I Watson  1 , Richard J Lilford  2
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Global COVID-19 vaccine roll-out: time to randomise vaccine allocation?

Samuel I Watson et al. Lancet. .
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Conflict of interest statement

RJL reports support from the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration West Midlands, NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Improving Health in Slums, and NIHR Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation. SIW declares no competing interests.

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