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COVID-19 Is Not the Flu: Four Graphs from Four Countries

2020-10-27

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Background: COVID-19 has caused a global public health emergency. In the absence of an effective vaccine, governments have implemented a series of behaviour-based prevention policies including physical distancing and preventive hygiene measures. These strategies are likely to impact the spread of other contagious respiratory illnesses, such as seasonal influenza. Our aim was to explore how the 2019-2020 influenza...

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Literature Corpus work: 7746ba34-2157-588c-98b5-88c94c332cc7
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3717830

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