About the Authors

Jantien A. Backer

jantien.backer@rivm.nl

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Jacco Wallinga

Affiliations Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, Department of Medical Statistics and BioInformatics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JAB JW. Data curation: JAB. Formal analysis: JAB. Funding acquisition: JW. Investigation: JAB. Methodology: JAB JW. Project administration: JW. Resources: JW. Software: JAB. Supervision: JW. Validation: JAB. Visualization: JAB. Writing – original draft: JAB. Writing – review & editing: JAB JW.