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support. We also thank the participating hospitals and healthcare workers, as well as and their administrative teams, and the members of the Prevention Epicenter of Emory and Atlanta Consortium Hospitals (PEACH).
Financial support. This work was supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Prevention Epicenters Program (grant no. U54CK000164). Emory University Hospital’s participation was in part sup- ported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (grant no. UL1TR000454 from the Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute).
Potential conflicts of interest. All authors report no conflicts of interest relevant to this article.
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