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Healthcare-associated infections during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2021

Tara N. Palmore
Affiliation:
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland
David K. Henderson*
Affiliation:
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland
*
Author for correspondence: David K. Henderson, E-mail: dhenderson@cc.nih.gov

Abstract

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Type
Commentary
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

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