Preprints: An underutilized mechanism to accelerate outbreak science

• Michael A. Johansson ,

  * E-mail: michael@outbreakscience.org

  Affiliation Outbreak Science, San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5090-7722

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• Nicholas G. Reich,

  Affiliations Outbreak Science, San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3503-9899

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• Lauren Ancel Meyers,

  Affiliations Outbreak Science, San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States of America, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Marc Lipsitch

  Affiliations Outbreak Science, San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States of America, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-9213

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