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From the Bureau of Communicable Disease (Dr. Greene, Ms. Levin-Rector, Ms. Baumgartner), Bureau of Equitable Health Systems (Mr. Tabaei), and Bureau of Epidemiology Services (Dr. Culp), New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Long Island City, New York, USA; Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (Dr. Kishore)

The authors report no funding sources.

Conflicts of interest: A subset of authors (Dr. Greene, Mr. Tabaei, Dr. Culp, and Ms. Baumgartner) are City of New York employees and were subject to mandates assessed in this analysis. The authors report no other conflicts of interest.

Ethical considerations: NYC DOHMH IRB #22-009. This work was deemed exempt human subjects research for which consent was not required.

Address correspondence to: Sharon K. Greene, PhD, MPH. Bureau of Communicable Disease, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 42-09 28th Street, CN22A, WS 06-154, Long Island City, New York, 11101, USA ([email protected]).

Acknowledgments: The authors thank the NYC municipal workforce for serving their communities through challenging pandemic circumstances. We thank Jessica Sell, MPH for contributions to study planning, Rebecca Kahn, PhD, MS for contributions to the analytic plan, and all DOHMH staff who served in the Surveillance and Epidemiology Section of the NYC Incident Command System. A preliminary version of this article was preprinted at https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.17.22280652v1.

The authors received no specific funding for this work beyond their usual salaries. Dr. Greene was supported by the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Cooperative Agreement (grant No. NU90TP922035-03-03), funded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Disclaimer: The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of NYC DOHMH.

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