About the Authors

Chris H. Wendt

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

wendt005@umn.edu

Affiliations Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Section, Minneapolis Veterans Administration Health Care System, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Sandra Castro-Pearson

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

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Jennifer Proper

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

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Sarah Pett

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Timothy J. Griffin

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Virginia Kan

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Section, Veterans Administration Health Care System, and George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Javier Carbone

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Immunology Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Maranon, Madrid, Spain

Nikolaos Koulouris

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Respiratory Medicine Dept, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

Cavan Reilly

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

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

James D. Neaton

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

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

for the INSIGHT FLU003 Plus Study Group

Membership of the INSIGHT FLU003 Plus Study Group is listed in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of the US Government, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the funders, or any of the authors’ affiliated academic institutions. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.