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Is there any supportive evidence for low dose radiotherapy for COVID-19 pneumonia?

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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Simon D. Boufflerc Public Health England Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Didcot, UKView further author information
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Michael J. Atkinsond 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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Elisabeth Cardise Campus Mar, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain;f University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain;g Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology & Public Health (CIBERESP), Carlos III Institute of Health, Madrid, SpainORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0999-6839View 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), Komae, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 1228-1235 | Received 20 May 2020, Accepted 17 Jun 2020, Published online: 13 Jul 2020

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