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Nicole K. Le1 , Manish Garg2 , Ricardo Izurieta<sup>3</sup> , Sona M. Garg4 , Thomas J. Papadimos<sup>5</sup> , Bonnie Arquilla6 , Andrew C. Miller7 , Abbas M. Khan7 , Tamara Worlton8 , Michael S. Firstenberg<sup>9</sup> , Sagar Galwankar10, Sunil Raina11, Harry L. Anderson III12, Rebecca Jeanmonod13, Donald Jeanmonod13, Ijeoma Nnodim Opara14, Kristiana Kaufmann15, Juan A. Asensio16 and Stanislaw P. Stawicki17\*

1 University of South Florida College of Medicine, Florida, USA

2 Department of Emergency Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell and Columbia University Schools of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

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3 College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA

4 The Joint ACAIM-WACEM Working Group on International Health Security, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

5 Department of Anesthesiology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, USA

6 Department of Emergency Medicine, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, New York, USA

7 Department of Emergency Medicine, Nazareth Hospital, Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

8 Department of Surgery, Global Surgery Division, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

9 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Medical Center of Aurora, Aurora, Colorado, USA

10 Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Florida State University, Florida, USA

11 Multidisciplinary Research Unit, Community Medicine, Government Medical College, Tanda, India

12 Department of Surgery, St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

13 Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

14 Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA

15 Department of Emergency Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA

16 Department of Surgery, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

17 Department of Research and Innovation, St. Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

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