Iodine, a preventive and curative agent in the COVID-19 pandemic?

Med Hypotheses

Regionaal Reuma Centrum Z.O. Brabant Máxima Medisch Centrum, Ds. Th. Fliednerstraat 1, 5631 BM Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Published: November 2020

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