Million Veteran Program’s response to COVID-19: Survey development and preliminary findings

Stacey B. Whitbourne; Xuan-Mai T. Nguyen; Rebecca J. Song; Emily Lord; Michelle Lyden; Kelly M. Harrington; Rachel Ward; Yanping Li; Jessica V. V. Brewer; Kelly M. Cho; Luc Djousse; Sumitra Muralidhar; Philip S. Tsao; J. Michael Gaziano; Juan P. Casas; on behalf of the MVP COVID-19 Science Program

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0266381

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Million Veteran Program’s response to COVID-19: Survey development and preliminary findings

Stacey B. Whitbourne ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Stacey B. Whitbourne, Xuan-Mai T. Nguyen

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Stacey.whitbourne@va.gov

Affiliations Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Division of Aging, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3472-3464

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Xuan-Mai T. Nguyen ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Stacey B. Whitbourne, Xuan-Mai T. Nguyen

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States of America, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, United States of America
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Rebecca J. Song,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
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Emily Lord,

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States of America
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Michelle Lyden,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States of America
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Kelly M. Harrington,

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America
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Rachel Ward,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States of America, New England Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
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Yanping Li,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States of America
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Jessica V. V. Brewer,

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States of America
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Kelly M. Cho,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Division of Aging, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America
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Luc Djousse,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Division of Aging, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America, New England Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States of America
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Sumitra Muralidhar,

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Office of Research and Development, Veterans Health Administration, Washington, D.C., United States of America
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Philip S. Tsao,

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations VA Palo Alto Epidemiology Research and Information Center for Genomics, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America
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J. Michael Gaziano,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Division of Aging, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America
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Juan P. Casas,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Division of Aging, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America
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on behalf of the MVP COVID-19 Science Program

¶Membership of the VA Million Veteran Program is provided in the Acknowledgments.
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Million Veteran Program’s response to COVID-19: Survey development and preliminary findings

Stacey B. Whitbourne,
Xuan-Mai T. Nguyen,
Rebecca J. Song,
Emily Lord,
Michelle Lyden,
Kelly M. Harrington,
Rachel Ward,
Yanping Li,
Jessica V. V. Brewer,
Kelly M. Cho

Published: April 25, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266381

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