Researchers are exploring whether these ubiquitous fluorinated molecules might worsen infections or hamper vaccine effectiveness.
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Edited by Susan T. Fiske, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, and approved October 22, 2019 (received for review June 28, 2019)
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Author contributions: C.J.B., D.S.Y., and J.M.O. designed research; C.J.B., D.S.Y., and J.M.O. analyzed data; and C.J.B. and D.S.Y. wrote the paper.
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Data deposition: All data and analysis scripts are posted on the Open Science Framework at https://osf.io/y5wsb/. An R package for conducting specification-curve analysis was developed for this work and is available for download at https://github.com/jmobrien/SpecCurve.
This article contains supporting information online at https://www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1910951116/-/DCSupplemental.
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