Different death rates between COVID-19 waves among unvaccinated patients: moving beyond lessons learned

Davide Campagna^{1

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3}, Crsitina Russo⁴, Elisa Trovato⁵, Joseph Bridgeman⁴, Riccardo Polosa^{6

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Affiliations

¹ Center of Excellence for the Acceleration of HArm Reduction (CoEHAR), University of Catania, Catania, Italy. davide.campagna@unict.it.
² Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy. davide.campagna@unict.it.
³ UOC MCAU, University Teaching Hospital "Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele", University of Catania, Catania, Italy. davide.campagna@unict.it.
⁴ Ashford and Saint Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust, Chertsey, Surrey, UK.
⁵ UOC MCAU, University Teaching Hospital "Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele", University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
⁶ Center of Excellence for the Acceleration of HArm Reduction (CoEHAR), University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
⁷ Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
⁸ ECLAT srl, Spin-off of the University of Catania, Catania, Italy.

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Davide Campagna et al. Intern Emerg Med. 2023 Jan.

. 2023 Jan;18(1):7-9.

doi: 10.1007/s11739-022-03131-5. Epub 2022 Oct 22.

Davide Campagna^{1

2

3}, Crsitina Russo⁴, Elisa Trovato⁵, Joseph Bridgeman⁴, Riccardo Polosa^{6

7

8}

¹ Center of Excellence for the Acceleration of HArm Reduction (CoEHAR), University of Catania, Catania, Italy. davide.campagna@unict.it.
² Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy. davide.campagna@unict.it.
³ UOC MCAU, University Teaching Hospital "Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele", University of Catania, Catania, Italy. davide.campagna@unict.it.
⁴ Ashford and Saint Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust, Chertsey, Surrey, UK.
⁵ UOC MCAU, University Teaching Hospital "Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele", University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
⁶ Center of Excellence for the Acceleration of HArm Reduction (CoEHAR), University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
⁷ Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
⁸ ECLAT srl, Spin-off of the University of Catania, Catania, Italy.

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