Volume 48 - Article 28 | Pages 829–848  

Age reporting for the oldest old in the Brazilian COVID-19 vaccination database: What can we learn from it?

By Cássio M. Turra, Fernando Fernandes, Júlia Almeida Calazans, Marília R. Nepomuceno

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