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Penelope Jones RN, ICU Cert, Grad Dip Epi

Infectious Diseases Unit, The Alfred Hospital; Departments of

Karin Leder MBBS, FRACP, PhD, MPH

Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine and

Ian J. Woolley MBBS, FRACP

Infectious Diseases Unit, The Alfred Hospital; Departments of

Department of Infectious Diseases, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Medicine, Monash University, and

Paul Cameron FRACP, FRCPA, PhD

Infectious Diseases Unit, The Alfred Hospital; Departments of

Medicine, Monash University, and

Denis Spelman MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA, MPH

Infectious Diseases Unit, The Alfred Hospital; Departments of

Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine and