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Frontline Health-Care Workers in Combating the COVID-19: Respect and Reflect

Yuan Li1 Nursing Department, West China Second University Hospital, Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children, Sichuan University, Ministry of Education, West China School of Nursing, Sichuan University, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China
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Biru Luo2 Nursing Department, West China Second University Hospital, Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children, Sichuan University, Ministry of Education, Sichuan, Chengdu, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1119-1122 | Published online: 11 Aug 2020

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