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01-07-2021 | COVID-19 Vaccination | Correspondence

COVID-19 vaccination status within anesthesia services: navigating uncharted waters

Authors: Heidi V. Goldstein, MD, Joseph C. Goldstein, MD

Published in: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie | Issue 7/2021

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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continues to present major public health and economic challenges around the world, and many nations are facing yet another surge in cases with the additional concern of more communicable virus variants.1 The light at the end of the tunnel promises to come in the form of vaccines that were developed in record time.2 There is hope that swift inoculation of a significant portion of the population will lead to herd immunity and allow us to gradually return to a normal way of life.3 …

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Title: COVID-19 vaccination status within anesthesia services: navigating uncharted waters
Authors: Heidi V. Goldstein, MD
Joseph C. Goldstein, MD
Publication date: 01-07-2021
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Keywords: COVID-19 Vaccination
Vaccination
COVID-19
Published in: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie / Issue 7/2021
Print ISSN: 0832-610X
Electronic ISSN: 1496-8975
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12630-021-01965-9

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