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Comment
. 2022 Oct;62(4):296.
doi: 10.1177/00258024221099348. Epub 2022 May 6.

Death "With" COVID-19 and "Due to" COVID-19 from the medico-legal point of view

Andrea Cioffi  1 , Camilla Cecannecchia  1
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Death "With" COVID-19 and "Due to" COVID-19 from the medico-legal point of view

Andrea Cioffi et al. Med Sci Law. 2022 Oct.
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Declaration of conflicting interests: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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