About the Authors

Marie-Noëlle Billard

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

Affiliation Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec—Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada

Gaston De Serres

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

gaston.deserres@inspq.qc.ca

Affiliations Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec—Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada, Institut national de santé publique du Québec, Quebec City, QC, Canada

Marie-Claude Gariépy

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec—Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada

Nicole Boulianne

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec—Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada, Institut national de santé publique du Québec, Quebec City, QC, Canada

Eveline Toth

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministère de la santé et des services sociaux du Québec, Montreal, QC, Canada

Monique Landry

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministère de la santé et des services sociaux du Québec, Montreal, QC, Canada

Danuta M. Skowronski

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation British Columbia Center for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: GDS has received investigator initiated grants from GSK and Pfizer and travel reimbursement to attend an ad hoc advisory board meeting of GSK. Other authors have no competing interests. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.