About the Authors

Jimmy Boon Som Ong

jimmy_ong@ttsh.com.sg

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Xiuju Fu

Affiliation Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore

Gary Kee Khoon Lee

Affiliation Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore

Mark I-Cheng Chen

Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MIC JBSO. Performed the experiments: JBSO. Analyzed the data: MIC JBSO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MIC JBSO. Wrote the paper: MIC JBSO XJF GKKL. Devised the model used in simulations and predictions: MIC JBSO.