Seasonal UV exposure and vitamin D: association with the dynamics of COVID‐19 transmission in Europe
Sunanda Biswas Mukherjee, Alessandro Gorohovski, Eugene Merzon, Eliad Levy, Sumit Mukherjee, Milana Frenkel‐morgenstern
FEBS Open Bio, doi:10.1002/2211-5463.13309
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Author Contributions SBM and MFM conceived and designed the project. SBM, AG, and EM acquired the data. SBM, AG, EM, EL, and SM analyzed and interpreted the data. SBM, AG, SM, and MFM wrote the paper. SBM, AG, SM, and MFM revised the article. All authors read and agreed on the final version of the article.
Conflict of interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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