About the Authors

Menucha Jurkowicz

Contributed equally to this work with: Menucha Jurkowicz, Michael Solomovich

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

☯ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel, Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, The Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel

Michael Solomovich

Contributed equally to this work with: Menucha Jurkowicz, Michael Solomovich

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

☯ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Eugene Leibovitz

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, The Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Nathan Keller

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ariel University, Ariel, Israel

Dafna Yahav

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Infectious Disease Unit, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel

Galia Barkai

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, The Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel

Nofar Atari

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel

Ilana S. Fratty

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, The Israel Center for Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Tel Hashomer, Israel

Hodaya Cohen

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Ana Belkin

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Infectious Disease Unit, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel

Yaniv Lustig

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel

Michal Stein

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, The Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Michal Mandelboim

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources

michal.mandelboim@sheba.health.gov.il

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.