Autopsy slowdown hinders quest to determine how coronavirus kills
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Autopsy slowdown hinders quest to determine how coronavirus kills

Strained health-care systems, lockdowns and safety requirements have hampered efforts to collect tissue from patients that is crucial to research.
  1. Heidi Ledford
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When the coronavirus pandemic slammed into the city of Bergamo, Italy, starting in February, the Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital there was quickly overwhelmed. Clinicians raced to dedicate the hospital, one of the largest in the region, to the care of people with COVID-19.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01355-z

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