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. 2021 Sep:1:100014.
doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2021.100014. Epub 2021 Jul 14.

Younger Brazilians hit by COVID-19 - What are the implications?

Raphael Mendonça Guimarães  1 , Margareth Crisóstomo Portela  1 , Daniel Antunes Maciel Villela  1 , Gustavo Correa Matta  1 , Carlos Machado de Freitas  1
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Younger Brazilians hit by COVID-19 - What are the implications?

Raphael Mendonça Guimarães et al. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2021 Sep.
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Proportional distribution of hospitalized cases and deaths due to COVID-19 in hospitalizations according to epidemiological week. Brazil, 2021 †Epidemiologic Week #1/2021 (Jan 03rd-09th); ¥ Epidemiologic Week #20/2021 (May 16th-22th).
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