About the Authors

Nguyen Tien Huy

Contributed equally to this work with: Nguyen Tien Huy, R. Matthew Chico, Vuong Thanh Huan

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

tienhuy@nagasaki-u.ac.jp (NTH); matthew.chico@lshtm.ac.uk (RMC)

Affiliation School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

R. Matthew Chico

Contributed equally to this work with: Nguyen Tien Huy, R. Matthew Chico, Vuong Thanh Huan

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

tienhuy@nagasaki-u.ac.jp (NTH); matthew.chico@lshtm.ac.uk (RMC)

Affiliation Department of Disease Control, Faculty of Infectious & Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Vuong Thanh Huan

Contributed equally to this work with: Nguyen Tien Huy, R. Matthew Chico, Vuong Thanh Huan

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

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Pham Ngoc Thach University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Hosam Waleed Shaikhkhalil

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

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza Strip, Palestine

Vuong Ngoc Thao Uyen

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation School of Biotechnology, International University—Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Ahmad Taysir Atieh Qarawi

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

Affiliation Lower Westchester Medical Associates, P.C., Mount Vernon, NY, United States of America

Shamael Thabit Mohammed Alhady

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Faculty of medicine, University of Gezira, Wad Medani, Sudan

Nguyen Lam Vuong

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Le Van Truong

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Traditional Medicine Hospital of Ministry of Public Security, Vietnam

Mai Ngoc Luu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Shyam Prakash Dumre

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Immunogenetics, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Atsuko Imoto

Roles Data curation

Affiliation School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Peter N. Lee

Roles Data curation

Affiliation P.N. Lee Statistics and Computing Ltd., Sutton, United Kingdom

Dao Ngoc Hien Tam

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Asia Shine Trading & Service CO. LTD., Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Sze Jia Ng

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Hospital Enche’ Besar Hajjah Khalsom, Johor, Malaysia

Mohammad Rashidul Hashan

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh—Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mitsuaki Matsui

Roles Data curation

Affiliation School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Nguyen Tran Minh Duc

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Sedighe Karimzadeh

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation School of Medicine, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran

Nut Koonrungsesomboon

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Chris Smith

Roles Data curation

Affiliations School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Sharon Cox

Roles Data curation

Affiliation London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Kazuhiko Moji

Roles Data curation

Affiliation School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Kenji Hirayama

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Le Khac Linh

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation VinUniversity, College of Health Sciences, Hanoi, Vietnam

Kirellos Said Abbas

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

Tran Nu Thuy Dung

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Tareq Mohammed Ali AL-Ahdal

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Ar-Ramtha, Jordan

Emmanuel Oluwadare Balogun

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and African Center of Excellence on Neglected Tropical Diseases and Forensic Biotechnology, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Nguyen The Duy

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliations Department of Gyn. Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Marburg, Germany, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Mennatullah Mohamed Eltaras

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine for Girls, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

Trang Huynh

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Nguyen Thi Linh Hue

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation Nguyen Trai Hospital, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Bui Diem Khue

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Abdelrahman Gad

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Gehad Mohamed Tawfik

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Kazumi Kubota

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

Hoang-Minh Nguyen

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Dmytro Pavlenko

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine

Vu Thi Thu Trang

Roles Data curation

Affiliation National Hospital of Traditional Medicine, Hanoi, Vietnam

Le Thuong Vu

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Tran Hai Yen

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation School of Biotechnology, International University—Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Nguyen Thi Yen-Xuan

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Cambridge University Hospital Foundation Trust, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Luong Thi Trang

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation Danang Oncology Hospital, Danang, Vietnam

Vinh Dong

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation American University of the Caribbean, Cupe Coy, Saint Maarten, United States of America

Akash Sharma

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation University College of Medical Sciences & Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, Dilshad Garden, Delhi, India

Vu Quoc Dat

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam

Mohammed Soliman

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

Jeza Abdul Aziz

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliations Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Science, University of Human Development, Kurdistan Region, Sulaimani, Iraq, Baxshin Research Training Organization, Baxshin Hospital, Kurdistan Region, Sulaimani, Iraq

Jaffer Shah

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Pham Dinh Long Hung

Roles Validation

Affiliation University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Yap Siang Jee

Roles Data curation

Affiliation School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia

Dang Thuy Ha Phuong

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine, Vietnam

Tran Thuy Huong Quynh

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan

Hoang Thi Nam Giang

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Institute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Da Nang, Da Nang, Vietnam

Vy Thi Nhat Huynh

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

Nguyen Anh Thi

Roles Validation

Affiliation Toulouse III Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France

Nacir Dhouibi

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

Truc Phan

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Vinmec International Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam

Vincent Duru

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Entomology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria

Nguyen Hai Nam

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery and Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Sherief Ghozy

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

contributors of the TMGH-Global COVID-19 Collaborative

Membership of the TMGH-Global COVID-19 Collaborative is listed in the Supplementary Text S3 section

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and declare they have no competing interests.The commercial affiliations: Lower Westchester Medical Associates, Asia Shine Trading & Service CO. LTD and P.N. Lee Statistics and Computing Ltd, UK do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.