About the Authors

Adam L. Cohen

dvj1@cdc.gov

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Thomas Taylor Jr

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Monica M. Farley

Affiliation Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

William Schaffner

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Lindsey J. Lesher

Affiliation Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Kenneth A. Gershman

Affiliation Colorado Department of Health and the Environment, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Nancy M. Bennett

Affiliation Rochester University School of Medicine, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Arthur Reingold

Affiliation University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Ann Thomas

Affiliation Oregon Department of Health, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Joan Baumbach

Affiliation New Mexico Department of Health, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Lee H. Harrison

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Susan Petit

Affiliation Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America

Bernard Beall

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Elizabeth Zell

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Matthew Moore

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ALC TT EZ MM. Performed the experiments: ALC TT MMF WS LJL KAG NMB AR AT JB LHH SP BB EZ MM. Analyzed the data: ALC TT EZ MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ALC TT MMF WS LJL KAG NMB AR AT JB LHH SP BB EZ MM. Wrote the paper: ALC TT MMF WS LJL KAG NMB AR AT JB LHH SP BB EZ MM.