About the Authors

Christoph Zimmer

christoph.zimmer@yale.edu

Affiliation Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Reza Yaesoubi

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Ted Cohen

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CZ RY TC. Data curation: CZ. Formal analysis: CZ RY TC. Funding acquisition: RY TC. Investigation: CZ RY TC. Methodology: CZ RY TC. Resources: CZ TC. Software: CZ. Supervision: RY TC. Validation: CZ RY TC. Visualization: CZ RY TC. Writing – original draft: CZ RY TC. Writing – review & editing: CZ RY TC.