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Please refer to CDC's Template Repository for more information about contributing to this repository, public domain notices and disclaimers, and code of conduct.
Thanks to 18F's open source policy and code of conduct that were very useful in setting up this GitHub organization. Thanks to CDC's Informatics Innovation Unit that was helpful in modeling the code of conduct.