Covid-19: Early Cases and Disease Spread

Jacques Reis; Alain Le Faou; Alain Buguet; Guy Sandner; Peter Spencer

doi:10.5334/aogh.3776

Covid-19: Early Cases and Disease Spread

Annals of Global Health

Volume 88 (2022): Issue 1

By: Jacques Reis , Alain Le Faou , Alain Buguet , Guy Sandner and Peter Spencer

Open Access

|Sep 2022

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Keywords:

Primary case,

index case,

Wuhan,

Military World Games,

retrospective assessment methods,

early SARS-CoV-2 circulation

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