Anand Kumar:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5034-4341
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: Writing
– original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Samantha B. Kasloff: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Anders Leung: Role: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Todd Cutts:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7691-5619
Role: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
James E. Strong:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0658-6669
Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review
& editing
Kevin Hills: Role: Investigation
Frank X. Gu: Role: Data curationRole: Investigation
Paul Chen: Role: Data curationRole: Investigation
Gloria Vazquez-Grande: Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Barret Rush: Role: Investigation
Sylvain Lother: Role: Investigation
Kimberly Malo: Role: Investigation
Ryan Zarychanski: Role: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Jay Krishnan: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Amitava Mukherjee: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS One
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
16
December
2020
Publication date Collection: 2020
Publication date PMC-release: 16
December
2020
Volume: 15
Issue: 12
Electronic Location Identifier: e0243965
Affiliations
[1
]
Sections of Critical Care Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Departments of Medicine,
Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
[2
]
National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada
[3
]
National Centre for Foreign Animal Diseases, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Winnipeg,
Canada
[4
]
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
[5
]
Section of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg, Canada
[6
]
Occupational & Environmental Safety and Health, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority,
Winnipeg, Canada
[7
]
Sections of Critical Care and Hematology, Departments of Medicine and Community Health
Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-20-21929
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0243965
PMC ID: 7744046
PubMed ID: 33326504
SO-VID: c8b6b156-ef6f-4c12-b3b0-3f5e159f054e
Copyright © © 2020 Kumar et al
License:
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The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.
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Infectious Diseases
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Infectious Disease Control
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Decontamination
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Organisms
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Viruses
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RNA viruses
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Coronaviruses
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SARS coronavirus
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SARS CoV 2
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Coronaviruses
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Viral pathogens
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Coronaviruses
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Coronaviruses
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