About the Authors

Guillermo A. Tortolero

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Michael R. Brown

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Shreela V. Sharma

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Marcia C. de Oliveira Otto

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Jose-Miguel Yamal

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

David Aguilar

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Matt D. Gunther

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Dania I. Mofleh

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Rachel D. Harris

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Jemima C. John

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Paul S. de Vries

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Ryan Ramphul

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Dritana Marko Serbo

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Jennifer Kiger

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Harris County Public Health, Houston Texas, United States of America

Deborah Banerjee

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation City of Houston Health Department, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Nick Bonvino

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

Affiliation Greater Houston Healthconnect, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Angela Merchant

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Greater Houston Healthconnect, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Warren Clifford

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Greater Houston Healthconnect, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jenny Mikhail

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Greater Houston Healthconnect, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hua Xu

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Robert E. Murphy

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Qiang Wei

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Farhaan S. Vahidy

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Outcomes Research, Houston Methodist, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Alanna C. Morrison

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Eric Boerwinkle

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

eric.boerwinkle@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

Authors NB, AM, WC, and JM are paid employees of Greater Houston Healthconnect (GHH). Greater Houston Healthconnect (GHH) is a not-for-profit, neutral entity, governed by a multi-stakeholder board to serve the communities in its coverage area. Participants sign a common data use and reciprocal support agreement (DURSA) to equitably share Protected Health Information (PHI). This work is permitted under the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) healthcare operations and quality improvement activities of covered entities operations. The data is restricted for use outside of these permitted purposes. Under this construct, GHH has no conflict of interest. Under subcontract to UTHealth, GHH identified COVID-19 patients into the cohort, queried covered entities for all patient data, aggregated and normalized the data for analysis by clinical specialists and researchers with preapproved proposals and local Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare.