About the Authors
- Anne M. Presanis
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Affiliation Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Daniela De Angelis
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Affiliations Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Statistics, Modelling and Bioinformatics Department, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, London, United Kingdom
- The New York City Swine Flu Investigation Team3¶
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¶Membership of The New York City Swine Flu Investigation Team is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Affiliation Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, City of New York, New York, New York, United States of America
- Angela Hagy
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Affiliation Department of Health, City of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Carrie Reed
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Affiliation Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Steven Riley
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Affiliation Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
- Ben S. Cooper
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Affiliation Statistics, Modelling and Bioinformatics Department, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, London, United Kingdom
- Lyn Finelli
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Affiliation Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Paul Biedrzycki
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Affiliation Department of Health, City of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Marc Lipsitch
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* E-mail: mlipsitc@hsph.harvard.edu
Affiliation Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Departments of Epidemiology and Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
ML has received consulting fees from the Avian/Pandemic Flu Registry (Outcome Sciences), sponsored in part by Roche.
Author Contributions
ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: AMP DDA TNYCSFIT AH CR SR BSC LF PB ML. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: AMP DDA TNYCSFIT AH CR SR BSC LF PB ML. Designed the experiments/the study: TNYCSFIT SR BSC LF ML. Analyzed the data: AMP LF ML. Collected data/did experiments for the study: TNYCSFIT AH LF PB. Enrolled patients: TNYCSFIT AH. Wrote the first draft of the paper: ML. Contributed to the writing of the paper: AMP DDA TNYCSFIT AH CR SR BSC LF PB. Contributed to model development: AMP. Contributed to model development and assessment: DDA. The New York City Swine Flu Investigation Team, who designed the surveillance for NYC, collected, cleaned, and did initial analyses of the data, is responsible for the data integrity of the NYC data and shared it with the other authors, and played a significant role in revising the paper and thinking through the analyses.