Testing indicators to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic

Affiliations

¹ European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Solna 169 73, Sweden. Electronic address: julien.beaute@ecdc.europa.eu.
² European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Solna 169 73, Sweden.

Comment

Julien Beauté et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2021 Oct.

. 2021 Oct;21(10):1344-1345.

doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00461-8. Epub 2021 Aug 24.

¹ European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Solna 169 73, Sweden. Electronic address: julien.beaute@ecdc.europa.eu.
² European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Solna 169 73, Sweden.

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Conflict of interest statement

We declare no competing interests.

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