Volume 51 - Article 29 | Pages 911–926  

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality in Uruguay from 2020 to 2022

By Catalina Torres, Victoria Prieto Rosas, Gonzalo De Armas, Mariana Paredes

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