Smoking and pre-existing co-morbidities as risk factors for developing severity of COVID-19 infection: Evidence from a field hospital in a rural area of Bangladesh.

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Since August 2020; the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) in collaboration with UNICEF has been operating a COVID-19 field hospital at the Teknaf sub-district of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh. This paper is focused on estimating the effects of a history of to...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Rashadul Islam, Sayem Ahmed, Samar Kishor Chakma, Tareq Mahmud, Abdullah Al Mamun, Ziaul Islam, M Munirul Islam
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295040

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