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Low dose radiation therapy for COVID-19 pneumonia: is there any supportive evidence?

Sisko Salomaaa Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland;b STUK-Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Helsinki, FinlandView further author information
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Elisabeth Cardisc Campus Mar, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain;d University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain;e Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology & Public Health (CIBERESP), Carlos III Institute of Health, C/Sinesio Delgado, Madrid, SpainORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0999-6839View further author information
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Simon D. Boufflerf Public Health England Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Oxon, UKView further author information
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Michael J. Atkinsong Institute of Radiation Biology, Helmholtz-Center Munich, National Research Centre for Health and Environment, Neuherberg, GermanyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-2089View further author information
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Nobuyuki Hamadah Radiation Safety Research Center, Nuclear Technology Research Laboratory, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Tokyo, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 1224-1227 | Received 20 Apr 2020, Accepted 24 Apr 2020, Published online: 06 May 2020

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