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Funding: AseptiScope, Inc, San Diego, California, reserved the room in which the meeting was held.
Conflicts of Interest: WFP reports research grants from Brainbox, Instrument Labs, Salix; serving as a consultant for Abbott, Brainbox, Instrument Labs, Janssen, Osler, Roche, Siemens, Viforl; having stock/ownership interests in AseptiScope Inc, Brainbox Inc, Braincheck Inc, Coagulo Inc, Comprehensive Research Associates LLC, Comprehensive Research Management Inc, Emergencies in Medicine LLC, Fast Inc, Forrest Devices, Ischemia DX LLC, Lucia Inc, Prevencio Inc, RCE Technologies, ROMTech, ScPharma, Trivirum Inc, Upstream Inc. FJT reports serving as a consultant for Moderna, Inc., Replimune, Inc., AseptiScope Inc. ZS reports serving on an advisory board and having stock options from Aseptiscope, Inc. AD reports none. AL reports none. SD reports serving on an advisory board for Aseptiscope, Inc.
Authorship: All authors had access to the data and a role in writing this manuscript.
