Lin, Yi-Chan
Malott, Rebecca J.
Ward, Linda
Kiplagat, Linet
Pabbaraju, Kanti
Gill, Kara
Berenger, Byron M.
Hu, Jia
Fonseca, Kevin
Noyce, Ryan S.
Louie, Thomas
Evans, David H. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5871-299X
Conly, John M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3348-0157
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes for Health Research
University of Alberta’s Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology
University of Calgary COVID-19 Research Fund
Alberta Health Services, Alberta Precision Laboratories Internal Operating Funds
Article History
Received: 24 September 2021
Accepted: 14 March 2022
First Online: 30 March 2022
Competing interests
: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at ExternalRef removed and declare: DHE has received grants from World Health Organization, grants from University of Calgary/Alberta Health Services, grants from Canadian Institutes for Health Research, grants from Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, grants from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, grants and other from Singletto Inc., during the conduct of the study; grants and personal fees from Tonix Pharmaceuticals, grants from TESER Industries, grants from Canadian Blood Services, outside the submitted work; JMC received funding from Alberta Health Services and grants from the University of Calgary for SARS-CoV-2 research during the conduct of the study and a grant from Pfizer for a <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> vaccine study for which all funding was provided only to the University of Calgary. JMC also received grants from the WHO for a study using integrated human factors and ethnography approaches to identify and scale innovative IPC guidance implementation supports in primary care with a focus on low-resource settings and using drone aerial systems to deliver medical supplies and PPE to remote First Nations communities during the COVID-19 pandemic, outside the scope of the submitted work and non-financial support from the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control for attendance at a Think Tank Meeting in 2019. JMC is a member and Chair of the WHO Infection Prevention and Control Research and Development Expert Group for COVID-19 and a member of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme (WHE) Ad-hoc COVID-19 IPC Guidance Development Group, both of which provide multidisciplinary advice to the WHO, for which no funding is received and from which no funding recommendations are made for any WHO contracts or grants. JMC is also a member of the Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections Group; no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.