About the Authors

Ravit Bassal

ravit.bassal@moh.health.gov.il

Affiliation Israel Center for Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Tamy Shohat

Affiliations Israel Center for Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Zalman Kaufman

Affiliation Israel Center for Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Batya Mannasse

Affiliation Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Public Health Services, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Eilat Shinar

Affiliation Magen David Adom Blood Services, Israel

Doron Amichay

Affiliation Soroka University Medical Center, Clalit Health Services, Beer Sheva, Israel

Mira Barak

Affiliation Haifa and Western Galilee Laboratories, Clalit Health Services, Nesher, Israel

Anat Ben-Dor

Affiliation Schneider Children Medical Center, Clalit Health Services, Petah-Tiqwa, Israel

Adina Bar Haim

Affiliation Mayanei HaYeshua Medical Center, Bnei-Brak, Israel

Daniel Cohen

Affiliation Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Ella Mendelson

Affiliations Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Public Health Services, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Yaniv Lustig

Affiliation Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Public Health Services, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RB TS ZK DC EM YL. Data curation: RB. Formal analysis: RB. Investigation: RB TS BM ES DA MB ABD ABH DC EM YL. Methodology: RB TS ZK BM ES DA MB ABD ABH DC EM YL. Project administration: RB TS DC EM YL. Resources: RB TS DC EM YL. Software: RB TS DC EM YL. Supervision: RB TS DC EM YL. Validation: RB TS DC EM YL. Visualization: RB TS DC EM YL. Writing – original draft: RB TS ZK BM ES DA MB ABD ABH DC EM YL. Writing – review & editing: RB TS ZK BM ES DA MB ABD ABH DC EM YL.