Political Races, Religious Congregations, and Inefficacious Measures Amid the Second Wave of COVID-19 in India.

Am J Public Health

Akshay P. Raut is with the St. George's Hospital, Grant Government Medical College and Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals, Mumbai, India. Nguyen Tien Huy is with the School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.

Published: December 2021

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