Hookah smoking and COVID-19: call for action
Skand Shekhar, Fady Hannah‐Shmouni
Abstract
In response to the CMAJ News article by Lauren Vogel,[1][1] we would like to highlight a method of transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that is underrecognized in Canada. A hookah (shisha or waterpipe) is a single- or multistemmed instrument that has been
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