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Letter to the Editor| Volume 83, ISSUE 2, e20-e21, August 2021

Reduced mortality rate after coronavac vaccine among healthcare workers

      Healthcare workers have a high risk of exposure to the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19)
      • Dos Santos L.A.
      • De Gois Filho P.G.
      • Silva A.M.F.
      • Santos J.V.G.
      • Santos D.S.
      • Aquino M.M.
      • et al.
      Recurrent COVID-19 including evidence of reinfection and enhanced severity in thirty Brazilian healthcare workers.
      and we lost many colleagues during this pandemic worldwide. As healthcare workers are high risk, they are one of the main groups for vaccine trials and population studies which its importance increased during pandemic due to priorisation of healthcare workers for COVID-19 vaccine.
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