About the Authors

Cheng-Pin Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheng-Pin Chen, Yi-Chun Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yi-Chun Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheng-Pin Chen, Yi-Chun Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Tsung-Chia Chen

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taichung, Taiwan

Ting-Yu Tseng

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taichung, Taiwan

Hon-Lai Wong

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Keelung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Keelung City, Taiwan

Cheng-Yu Kuo

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Pingtung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Pingtung, Taiwan

Wu-Pu Lin

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Sz-Rung Huang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Miaoli General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Miaoli, Taiwan

Wei-Yao Wang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Feng Yuan Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taichung, Taiwan

Jia-Hung Liao

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Nantou Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Nantou, Taiwan

Chung-Shin Liao

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Chia Yi Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Chiayi, Taiwan

Yuan-Pin Hung

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Tainan Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Tainan City, Taiwan

Tse-Hung Lin

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Hua Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Changhua, Taiwan

Tz-Yan Chang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Hua Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Changhua, Taiwan

Chin-Fu Hsiao

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan

Yi-Wen Huang

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Hua Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Changhua, Taiwan, Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Wei-Sheng Chung

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Health Service Administration, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Healthcare Administration, Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taichung, Taiwan

Chien-Yu Cheng

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan, School of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shu-Hsing Cheng

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

shcheng@mail.tygh.gov.tw

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan, School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

on behalf of the Taiwan HCQ Study Group

Membership of the Taiwan HCQ Study Group is listed in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.