About the Authors

Joan M. Henriksen Hellyer

Affiliation Program in Professionalism and Ethics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Aaron S. DeVries

Affiliation Infectious Disease, Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division, Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Sarah M. Jenkins

Affiliation Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Kandace A. Lackore

Affiliation Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Katherine M. James

james.katherine@mayo.edu

Affiliation Biomedical Ethics Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Jeanette Y. Ziegenfuss

Affiliations Division of Health Care Policy and Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Survey Research Center, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Gregory A. Poland

Affiliations Mayo Vaccine Research Group, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Program in Translational Immunovirology and Biodefense, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Jon C. Tilburt

Affiliations Biomedical Ethics Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Division of General Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

Gregory A. Poland: GAP has offered consultative advice on novel influenza vaccine development to Merck & Co., Inc., Avianax, Theraclone Sciences (formally Spaltudaq Corporation), MedImmune LLC, Liquidia Technologies, INc., Novavax, Sanofi Pasteur, and PAXVAX, Inc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMH ASD GAP JCT. Performed the experiments: JMH KMJ JCT. Analyzed the data: SMJ KAL KMJ JYZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JYZ. Wrote the paper: JMH ASD JYZ JCT KMJ.