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Silvina C. Mema, MD, MSc, FRCPC

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Ice hockey players face off on indoor rink
Clinical Articles / March 2020

Cluster of respiratory illness in British Columbia linked to poor air quality at an indoor ice arena: A case report

Case data On 12 February 2019, a hospitalist physician at the Kelowna General Hospital contacted the Interior Health on-call medical health officer (MHO) to report a cluster of respiratory illness.[1] A 56-year-old... Read More

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