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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JMed</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">JMIRx Med</journal-id>
      <journal-title>JMIRx Med</journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2563-6316</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>JMIR Publications</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>Toronto, Canada</publisher-loc>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2196/25573</article-id>
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          <subject>Authors’ Response to Peer Reviews</subject>
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          <subject>Authors’ Response to Peer Reviews</subject>
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        <article-title>Author’s Response to Peer Review of “Predicting Health Disparities in Regions at Risk of Severe Illness to Inform Health Care Resource Allocation During Pandemics: Observational Study”</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="editor">
          <name>
            <surname>Eysenbach</surname>
            <given-names>Gunther</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib id="contrib1" contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Fusillo</surname>
            <given-names>Tara</given-names>
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          <xref rid="aff1" ref-type="aff">1</xref>
          <address>
            <institution>John F Kennedy High School</institution>
            <addr-line>3000 Bellmore Ave</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Bellmore, NY, 11710</addr-line>
            <country>United States</country>
            <phone>1 516 992 1400</phone>
            <email>ifusil@optonline.net</email>
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          <ext-link ext-link-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0441-3649</ext-link>
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        <label>1</label>
        <institution>John F Kennedy High School</institution>
        <addr-line>Bellmore, NY</addr-line>
        <country>United States</country>
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        <corresp>Corresponding Author: Tara Fusillo <email>ifusil@optonline.net</email></corresp>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <season>Jan-Dec</season>
        <year>2020</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>2</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2020</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>1</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <elocation-id>e25573</elocation-id>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>6</day>
          <month>11</month>
          <year>2020</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>6</day>
          <month>11</month>
          <year>2020</year>
        </date>
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      <copyright-statement>©Tara Fusillo. Originally published in JMIRx Med (https://med.jmirx.org), 02.12.2020.</copyright-statement>
      <copyright-year>2020</copyright-year>
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        <p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://med.jmirx.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.</p>
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        <kwd>coronavirus</kwd>
        <kwd>SARS-CoV-2</kwd>
        <kwd>pandemic</kwd>
        <kwd>socioeconomic status</kwd>
        <kwd>predictive model</kwd>
        <kwd>health care resource allocation</kwd>
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    <p>   The author of the manuscript  [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>] is grateful to the editor and reviewers for their invaluable input and feedback.
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      <title>Response to Round 1 Reviews</title>
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        <title>Specific Comments</title>
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          <title>Major Comments</title>
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              <p> The author has added a correlation matrix to the supplemental materials.</p>
            </list-item>
            <list-item>
              <p>The author has added several examples of stepwise regression model use to the Introduction section to help ground readers in the validity of this approach in similar applications.</p>
            </list-item>
            <list-item>
              <p>The author has made the suggested points in the revised Limitations section of the Discussion.
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            </list-item>
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          <title>Minor Comments</title>
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              <p> All data sets and regression model details have been added for each state to the Multimedia Appendices section.</p>
            </list-item>
            <list-item>
              <p> The author has changed the conditional formatting to red and blue in Figure 3.</p>
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