About the Authors

Don Klinkenberg

don.klinkenberg@rivm.nl

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Jantien A. Backer

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Xavier Didelot

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Caroline Colijn

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Jacco Wallinga

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, Department of Medical Statistics and Bio-Informatics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DK JAB XD CC JW. Data curation: DK. Formal analysis: DK. Investigation: DK. Methodology: DK JAB XD CC JW. Software: DK JAB. Supervision: DK JW. Validation: DK. Visualization: DK. Writing – original draft: DK. Writing – review & editing: DK JAB XD CC JW.