Post-traumatic stress symptoms among medical rescue workers exposed to COVID-19 in Japan.

Psychiatry Clin Neurosci

Department of Mental Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

Published: September 2020

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