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Correction to: At-home testing to mitigate community transmission of SARS-CoV-2: protocol for a public health intervention with a nested prospective cohort study

BMC Public Health volume 22, Article number: 151 (2022) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 04 December 2021

Correction to BMC Public Health 21, 2209 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12007-w

After publication of the original article [1] the authors noticed 2 errors in the acknowledgement section. The incorrect and correct acknowledgement section are published below, the changes are shown in bold.

Incorrect acknowledgement

  • We acknowledge the immense contribution of all the community members who participated in the SYCT intervention and substudy, as well as the community partners (including local health departments) who worked with the SYCT program to encourage participation and facilitate kit distribution. Additionally, we thank Rachael Fleurence, the Office of the Director, and Dr. Michael Lauer from the NIH for their leadership and drive, as well as Elizabeth DiNenno from the CDC for her advice on study design and interfacing with health departments. Finally, we would like to acknowledge Jared Shamwell, Peter Fox, and Oleg Baranovskiy from DataRobot for their contributions to the site selection simulations; Charice Tellez and Jeannine Mason from Quidel for providing the images used in Fig. 4; CareEvolution for their mobile application support; Dr. Michael Muhammad with CCPH for his assistance with drafting the Community Engagement section of the manuscript; and Bola Yusuf for her organization of the manuscript preparation meetings and assistance with citations.

Correct acknowledgement

  • We acknowledge the immense contribution of all the community members who participated in the SYCT intervention and substudy, as well as the community partners (including local health departments) who worked with the SYCT program to encourage participation and facilitate kit distribution. Additionally, we thank Dr. Rachael Fleurence, the Office of the Director, and Dr. Michael Lauer from the NIH for their leadership and drive, as well as Dr. Elizabeth DiNenno from the CDC for her advice on study design and interfacing with health departments. Finally, we would like to acknowledge Dr. Jared Shamwell, Peter Fox, and Oleg Baranovskiy from DataRobot for their contributions to the site selection simulations; Charice Tellez and Jeannine Mason from Quidel for providing the images used in Fig. 4; CareEvolution for their mobile application support; Dr. Michael Muhammad with CCPH for his assistance with drafting the Community Engagement section of the manuscript; Dr. Claire Duvallet at Biobot for her assistance with the design and interpretation of the wastewater analysis; and Bola Yusuf for her organization of the manuscript preparation meetings and assistance with citations.

The original article has been updated with the correct information.

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  1. Ciccone EJ, Conserve DF, Dave G, et al. At-home testing to mitigate community transmission of SARS-CoV-2: protocol for a public health intervention with a nested prospective cohort study. BMC Public Health. 2021;21:2209. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12007-w.

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  1. Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Emily J. Ciccone

  2. Department of Prevention and Community Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

    Donaldson F. Conserve

  3. Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Gaurav Dave

  4. Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

    Christoph P. Hornik & Michael Cohen-Wolkowiez

  5. Department of Social Medicine, Center for Health Equity Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Marlena L. Kuhn, Jessica L. Herling & Michelle Song

  6. Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

    Shani Alston, Lindsay Singler, Samuel Broderick & Lisa M. Wruck

  7. Office of Technology, DataRobot, Inc., Boston, MA, USA

    Michael D. Schmidt

  8. Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

    Aaron Jones & Warren A. Kibbe

  9. Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Allison E. Aiello

  10. Departments of Medicine and Pathology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

    Christopher W. Woods

  11. Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, Raleigh, NC, USA

    Alan Richmond

  12. Department of Social Medicine, Center for Health Equity Research, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Giselle Corbie-Smith

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Ciccone, E.J., Conserve, D.F., Dave, G. et al. Correction to: At-home testing to mitigate community transmission of SARS-CoV-2: protocol for a public health intervention with a nested prospective cohort study. BMC Public Health 22, 151 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12442-9

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