About the Authors

Wan Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

wy2202@cumc.columbia.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Eric H. Y. Lau

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

Benjamin J. Cowling

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

Competing Interests

BJC reports receipt of honoraria from Roche and Sanofi. The authors declare that they have no other potential competing interests.