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Vol. 150 No. 1920 (2020)

COVID-19 and telehealth: a window of opportunity and its challenges

  • Vasileios Nittas
  • Viktor von Wyl
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2020.20284
Cite this as:
Swiss Med Wkly. 2020;150:w20284
Published
13.05.2020

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