Counting the global COVID-19 dead

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Global Health Research, Unity Health Toronto, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M581C8, Canada; Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M581C8, Canada. Electronic address: prabhat.jha@utoronto.ca.
² Centre for Global Health Research, Unity Health Toronto, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M581C8, Canada; Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M581C8, Canada.
³ Community Health Sciences, Njala University, Bo, Sierra Leone.

Prabhat Jha et al. Lancet. 2022.

. 2022 May 21;399(10339):1937-1938.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00845-5. Epub 2022 May 6.

¹ Centre for Global Health Research, Unity Health Toronto, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M581C8, Canada; Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M581C8, Canada. Electronic address: prabhat.jha@utoronto.ca.
² Centre for Global Health Research, Unity Health Toronto, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M581C8, Canada; Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M581C8, Canada.
³ Community Health Sciences, Njala University, Bo, Sierra Leone.

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