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Opinion: Let’s Give Vaccination Programs a Shot

By Elissa M. Schechter-Perkins, MD, MPH; Richard Rothman, MD, PhD; Kiran Faryar, MD; Michael Waxman, MD; Bhakti Hansoti, MD; Michael Lyons, MD; Yu-Hsiang Hsieh, PhD; Eili Klein, PhD; Larissa May, MD; Jason Wilson, MD; and Daniel R. Martin, MD, MBA, on behalf of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine interest group Emergency Medicine Transmissible Infectious Diseases and Epidemics (EMTIDE) | on February 24, 2021 | 0 Comment
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Dr. Schechter-Perkins is with Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center. Dr. Rothman, Dr. Hansoti, Dr. Hsieh, and Dr. Klein are with John Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. Dr. Faryar and Dr. Lyons are with University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Waxman is with Albany Medical College in Albany, New York. Dr. May is with UC Davis Health in Sacramento, California. Dr. Wilson is with Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa General Hospital. Dr. Martin is with Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus. All are members of the EMTIDE interest group.

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