Aerosol SARS-CoV-2 in hospitals and long-term care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Gary Mallach ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gary Mallach, Samantha B. Kasloff, Tom Kovesi, Anand Kumar

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gary.mallach@canada.ca

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Water and Air Quality Bureau, Health Canada, Ottawa, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0927-592X

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• Samantha B. Kasloff ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gary Mallach, Samantha B. Kasloff, Tom Kovesi, Anand Kumar

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Tom Kovesi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gary Mallach, Samantha B. Kasloff, Tom Kovesi, Anand Kumar

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0521-8936

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• Anand Kumar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gary Mallach, Samantha B. Kasloff, Tom Kovesi, Anand Kumar

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Sections of Critical Care Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Departments of Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Ryan Kulka,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Water and Air Quality Bureau, Health Canada, Ottawa, Canada

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• Jay Krishnan,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Benoit Robert,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

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• Michaeline McGuinty,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

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• Sophia den Otter-Moore,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

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• Bashour Yazji,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

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• Todd Cutts

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

  Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

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