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No veterinarians (yet) on the Italian covid-19 scientific committee
BMJ 2021; 374 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n1719 (Published 14 July 2021) Cite this as: BMJ 2021;374:n1719
- Giovanni Di Guardo, past professor of general pathology and veterinary pathophysiology
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Teramo, 64100 Teramo, Italy
- gdiguardo{at}unite.it
The challenges and uncertainties of covid-19 continue.1 As a retired veterinary pathologist, with almost 20 years of academic and teaching experience in general pathology and veterinary pathophysiology, I feel great discomfort that not a single veterinarian sits on the Italian Scientific and Technical Committee for the Covid-19 Pandemic.
This committee, popularly known by the acronym CTS (Comitato Tecnico Scientifico), was officially established in Italy in …
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