Acknowledgments:
We would like to acknowledge the courage, resilience, and sacrifice of our health professional colleagues, our patients, and our community during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Research funding: None declared.
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Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
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Competing interests: Dr. Choi is supported by the National Institutes of Health/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences grant KL2-TR- 002385. Dr. Choi has received consulting fees from Roche Diagnostics and Allergan for work unrelated to this manuscript. The other authors state no conflict of interest.
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Informed consent: Not applicable.
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Ethical approval: Not applicable.
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