Lessons from Sweden: where can older adults shelter from COVID-19?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine and Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA.
² Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA.

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Alison C Roxby et al. Lancet Healthy Longev. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;1(2):e53-e54.

doi: 10.1016/S2666-7568(20)30035-0. Epub 2020 Oct 28.

¹ Department of Medicine and Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA.
² Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA.

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Residential context and COVID-19 mortality among adults aged 70 years and older in Stockholm: a population-based, observational study using individual-level data.
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