About the Authors

Pei-Chun Chan

pcanita.tw@cdc.gov.tw

Affiliation Third Division, Centers for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan

Su-Hua Huang

Affiliation Third Division, Centers for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan

Ming-Chih Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-Chih Yu, Shih-Wei Lee, Yi-Wen Huang, Shun-Tien Chien, Jen-Jyh Lee

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University-Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Shih-Wei Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-Chih Yu, Shih-Wei Lee, Yi-Wen Huang, Shun-Tien Chien, Jen-Jyh Lee

Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Tao-Yuan General Hospital, Department of Health, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

Yi-Wen Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-Chih Yu, Shih-Wei Lee, Yi-Wen Huang, Shun-Tien Chien, Jen-Jyh Lee

Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Chang-Hua Hospital, Department of Health, Chang-Hua, Taiwan

Shun-Tien Chien

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-Chih Yu, Shih-Wei Lee, Yi-Wen Huang, Shun-Tien Chien, Jen-Jyh Lee

Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Chest Hospital, Department of Health, Tainan, Taiwan

Jen-Jyh Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-Chih Yu, Shih-Wei Lee, Yi-Wen Huang, Shun-Tien Chien, Jen-Jyh Lee

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

and the TMTC

Members of the TMTC can be found in the acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PCC SHH MCY SWL YWH STC JJL. Performed the experiments: MCY SWL YWH STC YHW JJL . Analyzed the data: PCC. Wrote the paper: PCC.