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Carruthers, Jade
Denny, Cheryl https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4616-4732
Donaghy, Jack
Hillman, Sam
Hopcroft, Lisa E. M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7022-1322
Hopkins, Leanne https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7487-4363
Goulding, Anna https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1288-3256
Lindsay, Laura
McLaughlin, Terry
Moore, Emily https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9634-3299
Pan, Jiafeng
Taylor, Bob https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-2685
Almaghrabi, Fatima
Auyeung, Bonnie https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1741-0949
Bhaskaran, Krishnan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5364-8757
Gibbons, Cheryl L.
Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-9092
McCowan, Colin
Murray, Josie
O’Leary, Maureen
Ritchie, Lewis D.
Shah, Syed Ahmar https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5672-0443
Simpson, Colin R. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5194-8083
Robertson, Chris
Sheikh, Aziz https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7022-3056
Stock, Sarah J. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4308-856X
Wood, Rachael
Article History
Received: 23 September 2022
Accepted: 7 October 2022
First Online: 17 October 2022
Competing interests
: A.S. and C.R. were members of the Scottish Government’s COVID-19 Advisory Group. A.S. and C.R. are members of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) risk stratification subgroup and the Scottish Government’s Committee on Pandemic Preparedness. C.R. is a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling. A.S. is a member of AstraZeneca’s Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Advisory Group. All roles are unremunerated. S.V.K. was co-chair of Scottish Government’s Expert Reference Group on Ethnicity and COVID-19. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.
: COPS has ethical approval from the National Research Ethics Service Committee, South East Scotland 02 (REC 12/SS/0201: SA 2) and information governance approval from the Public Benefit and Privacy Panel for Health and Social Care (2021-0116). All data were housed within Public Health Scotland and accessed only by approved researchers.