About the Authors

Birgitte Freiesleben de Blasio

birgitte.deblasio@medisin.uio.no

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Basic Medical Science, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Division of Infectious Disease Control, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

Bjørn G. Iversen

Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease Control, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Roma, Italy, Norwegian Computing Center, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: BdB GST. Wrote the paper: BdB BI GST. Epidemiological and medical expertise: BI. Modelling of pandemic, all interpretation of modelling results: BdB GST.