About the Authors

Anastasia Kholodnaia

Contributed equally to this work with: Anastasia Kholodnaia, Kaku So-Armah

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

ancold@inbox.ru

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Academician I.P. Pavlov First St. Petersburg State Medical University, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation

Kaku So-Armah

Contributed equally to this work with: Anastasia Kholodnaia, Kaku So-Armah

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

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center, Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit, Boston, MA, United States of America

Debbie Cheng

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

Natalia Gnatienko

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit, Boston, MA, United States of America

Gregory Patts

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (BEDAC), Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

Jeffrey H. Samet

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center, Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

Matthew Freiberg

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vanderbilt Center for Clinical Cardiovascular Trials Evaluation (V-C3REATE), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Cardiovascular Division, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Dmitry Lioznov

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Academician I.P. Pavlov First St. Petersburg State Medical University, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation, Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.