About the Authors
- Gerardo Chowell
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* E-mail: gchowell@asu.edu
Affiliations Mathematical, Computational & Modeling Sciences Center, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Division of Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Santiago Echevarría-Zuno
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Affiliation Dirección de Prestaciones Médicas, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico City
- Cécile Viboud
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Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Lone Simonsen
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Affiliations Division of Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Global Health, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University, Washington (D.C.), United States of America
- James Tamerius
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Affiliations Division of Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
- Mark A. Miller
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Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Víctor H. Borja-Aburto
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Affiliation Coordinación de Vigilancia Epidemiológica y Apoyo en Contingencias Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mier y Pesado 120, México, México
Competing Interests
LS received consulting fees from SDI, a health data warehouse business in Pennsylvania, and received research support from Pfizer for a pneumococcal vaccine study, but this is not relevant to the topic of this paper. MAM has been named on a US government patent for an experimental influenza vaccine as required by Federal requirements.
Author Contributions
ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: GC SEZ CV LS JT MAM VHBA. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: GC SEZ CV LS JT MAM VHBA. Designed the experiments/the study: GC SEZ CV LS VHBA. Analyzed the data: GC CV VHBA. Collected data/did experiments for the study: GC SEZ VHBA. Enrolled patients: SEZ VHBA. Wrote the first draft of the paper: GC. Contributed to the writing of the paper: GC SEZ CV LS MAM VHBA. Developed the absolute humidity database: JT.