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Vol. 153 No. 3 (2023)

Long-term mortality effects of century crises: A warning from the past for the decades after COVID-19?

  • Katarina L. Matthes
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57187/smw.2023.40057
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Swiss Med Wkly. 2023;153:40057
Published
21.03.2023

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