About the Authors

Paul M. McKeigue

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

paul.mckeigue@ed.ac.uk

Affiliations Usher Institute, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, Public Health Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland

Amanda Weir

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland

Jen Bishop

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

Affiliation Public Health Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland

Stuart J. McGurnaghan

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

Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

Sharon Kennedy

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation NHS Information Services Division (Public Health Scotland), Edinburgh, Scotland

David McAllister

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Public Health Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland

Chris Robertson

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

Rachael Wood

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation NHS Information Services Division (Public Health Scotland), Edinburgh, Scotland

Nazir Lone

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Usher Institute, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

Janet Murray

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland

Thomas M. Caparrotta

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

Alison Smith-Palmer

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland

David Goldberg

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland

Jim McMenamin

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

Affiliation Public Health Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland

Colin Ramsay

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

Affiliation Public Health Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland

Sharon Hutchinson

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

Affiliations Public Health Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland, School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland

Helen M. Colhoun

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Public Health Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

on behalf of Public Health Scotland COVID-19 Health Protection Study Group

Membership of Public Health Scotland COVID-19 Health Protection Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgements.

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests:HC receives research support and honoraria and is a member of advisory panels or speaker bureaus for Sanofi Aventis, Regeneron, Novartis, Novo-Nordisk and Eli Lilly. HC receives or has recently received non-binding research support from AstraZeneca and Novo-Nordisk. SH received honoraria from Gilead. TMC is a Diabetes UK ‘Sir George Alberti Clinical Research Fellow’ (Grant number: 18/0005786), although the views represented in this article are his own and not those of Diabetes UK. CR reports grants from Public Health Scotland, grants from MRC, during the conduct of the study; and Member of Chief Medical Officer of Scotland Scientific Advisory Group for COVID19 Member of SPI-M a subgroup of the UK Scientific Advisory Group for Epidemics Member of MHRA Advisory Group for Vaccine Safety. All other co-authors declare that no competing interest exists.