A Pandemic within a Pandemic - Intimate Partner Violence during Covid-19.

N Engl J Med

From the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tufts Medical Center (M.L.E.), the Domestic Violence Institute, Northeastern University School of Law and Bouvé College of Health Sciences (M.L.), and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School (M.E.F.) - all in Boston.

Published: December 2020

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