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Journal of Primary Health Care Journal of Primary Health Care Society
Journal of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners
COMMENT AND RESPONSE (Open Access)

Response to letter from Sundborn et al. on: ‘Chasing elimination through lockdowns is stamping out livelihoods and lives’

Ian Town 1
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Chief Science Advisor, New Zealand Ministry of Health, PO Box 5013, Wellington 6140, New Zealand.

Journal of Primary Health Care 12(4) 302-304 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC15959
Published: 22 December 2020

Journal Compilation © Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2020 This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License


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