About the Authors

Eleleta Surafel Abay

Contributed equally to this work with: Eleleta Surafel Abay, Mezmur Dawit Belew, Yonas Ademe Teferi

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

eleletasabay@gmail.com

Affiliation Division of COVID-19 Response Task Force, Department of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care, Kadisco General Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Mezmur Dawit Belew

Contributed equally to this work with: Eleleta Surafel Abay, Mezmur Dawit Belew, Yonas Ademe Teferi

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

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Beza Seleshi Ketsela

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

‡ BSK, EEM, LSG and ABZ also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Enderas Eneyew Mengistu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

‡ BSK, EEM, LSG and ABZ also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Outpatient Care, Landmark General Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Liya Sisay Getachew

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ BSK, EEM, LSG and ABZ also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Clinical Trials, Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Yonas Ademe Teferi

Contributed equally to this work with: Eleleta Surafel Abay, Mezmur Dawit Belew, Yonas Ademe Teferi

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

Affiliation Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Abebe Bekele Zerihun

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Academic and Research Affairs, University of Global Health Equity, Kigali, Rwanda

‡ BSK, EEM, LSG and ABZ also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.