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1 Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Electronic address: sgibbs@tamu.edu.
2 Nebraska Medicine, Omaha, NE; Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, Omaha, NE; University of Nebraska Medical Center, Global Center for Health Security, Omaha, NE.
3 University of Nebraska Medical Center, Global Center for Health Security, Omaha, NE; Department of Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health, Omaha, NE.
4 Department of Nursing, NYC Health + Hospitals, Bellevue, NY.
5 Administration Department, Denver Health & Hospital Authority, Denver, CO.
6 Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Emory Serious Communicable Diseases Unit, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA.
7 Division of Emergency Preparedness, Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Brigham, Boston, MA; Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.