About the Authors

John Whitehead

j.whitehead@lancaster.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Peter Horby

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JW PH. Formal analysis: JW. Funding acquisition: PH. Methodology: JW. Writing – original draft: JW PH. Writing – review & editing: JW PH.