About the Authors

Apoorva Anand

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health, Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Fiorella Vialard

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health, Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Aliasgar Esmail

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity, Division of Pulmonology, UCT Lung Institute and Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Faiz Ahmad Khan

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Patrick O’Byrne

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Jean-Pierre Routy

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health, Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Keertan Dheda

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity, Division of Pulmonology, UCT Lung Institute and Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Nitika Pant Pai

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

nitika.pai@mcgill.ca

Affiliations Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health, Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: NPP reports an open access application for COVID self-testing: “COVIDSmart CARE!”, McGill University Copyright 2022-002. This digital innovation was supported by the CIHR grant no FRN 174921.