About the Authors

François Cholette

Contributed equally to this work with: François Cholette, Christine Mesa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Christine Mesa

Contributed equally to this work with: François Cholette, Christine Mesa

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

Angela Harris

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

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

Hannah Ellis

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

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

Karla Cachero

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

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

Philip Lacap

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

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

Yannick Galipeau

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

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Marc-André Langlois

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

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, The Centre for Infection, Immunity, and Inflammation (CI3), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Anne-Claude Gingras

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

Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Canada

Cedric P. Yansouni

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

Jesse Papenburg

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity, McGill University, Montréal, Canada, Division of Microbiology, Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Optilab Montréal–McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Canada

Matthew P. Cheng

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity, McGill University, Montréal, Canada, Division of Microbiology, Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Optilab Montréal–McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Canada

Pranesh Chakraborty

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Newborn Screening Ontario, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada

Derek R. Stein

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, Cadham Provincial Laboratory, Manitoba Health, Winnipeg, Canada

Paul Van Caeseele

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, Cadham Provincial Laboratory, Manitoba Health, Winnipeg, Canada, Department of Pediatrics & Child Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, Montréal, Canada

Sofia Bartlett

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Mel Krajden

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

David Goldfarb

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Allison McGeer

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, Montréal, Canada, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Carla Osiowy

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

Catherine Hankins

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

catherine.hankins@mcgill.ca (CH); john.kim@canada.ca (JK)

Affiliations COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, Montréal, Canada, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

Bruce Mazer

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

Michael Drebot

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

John Kim

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

catherine.hankins@mcgill.ca (CH); john.kim@canada.ca (JK)

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

on behalf of the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF) working group

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.