About the Authors

Yang Lei

Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, ON, Canada

Jennifer A. Pereira

Affiliation Public Health Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada

Susan Quach

Affiliation Public Health Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada

Julie A. Bettinger

Affiliations Vaccine Evaluation Center, Vancouver, BC, Canada, BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Jeffrey C. Kwong

Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

Kimberly Corace

Affiliations The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Gary Garber

Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, ON, Canada, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Yael Feinberg

Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, ON, Canada

Maryse Guay

maryse.guay.agence16@ssss.gouv.qc.ca

Affiliations Département des sciences de la santé communautaire, Université de Sherbrooke, Longueuil, QC, Canada, Institut national de santé publique du Québec, Longueuil, QC, Canada, Centre de recherche de l’Hôpital Charles LeMoyne, Longueuil, QC, Canada, Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de la Montérégie, Longueuil, QC, Canada

Public Health Agency of Canada/Canadian Institutes of Health Research Influenza Research Network (PCIRN) Program Delivery and Evaluation Group

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCK JAP SQ. Performed the experiments: YL JAP SQ. Analyzed the data: YL JAP SQ. Wrote the paper: YL JAP SQ JAB JCK KC GG YF MG.