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Wrong question and the wrong standard of proof
- Correspondence to Professor Marc Lipsitch, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; mlipsitc{at}hsph.harvard.edu
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Wrong question and the wrong standard of proof
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- Received April 7, 2022
- Accepted April 11, 2022
- First published April 20, 2022.
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November 15, 2022
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