COVID-19 AND FERTILITY – BABY BOOM OR BUST?

Harpreet Singh Dhillon; Shibu Sasidharan

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COVID-19 AND FERTILITY – BABY BOOM OR BUST?

Harpreet Singh Dhillon

¹

,

Shibu Sasidharan

²

Department of Psychiatry, 166 Military Hospital, Jammu, India
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Level III IFH, United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Goma, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Health Prob Civil. 2021; 15(1): 1-3

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/hpc.2021.102655

Online publish date: 2021/01/25

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COVID-19 AND FERTILITY – BABY BOOM OR BUST?

Harpreet Singh Dhillon 1 , Shibu Sasidharan 2

Harpreet Singh Dhillon

¹

,

Shibu Sasidharan

²