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. 2021 Aug 7;42(30):2876-2879.
doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehab083.

Is COVID-19 the deadliest event of the last century?

Riccardo Di Pietro  1 , Simone Calcagno  1 , Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai  2   3 , Francesco Versaci  1
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Is COVID-19 the deadliest event of the last century?

Riccardo Di Pietro et al. Eur Heart J. .
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The first page of the Charlotte Observer on 15 August 1945 (top panel). A family picture (bottom left panel), and a newspaper page on the use of face masks during the Spanish flu (bottom right panel).
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Wuhan Municipal Health Commission notification of the outbreak of pneumonia on 31 December 2019.
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Figure 3
Reductions in admissions for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) across Italy between 12 March and 19 March 2019 and between 12 March and 19 March 2020 (reprinted from De Rosa et al.9). NSTEMI, non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction; STEMI, ST-elevation myocardial infarction.
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