About the Authors

Edward M. Hill

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Edward.Hill@warwick.ac.uk

Affiliation The Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology & Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research, School of Life Sciences and Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom

Stavros Petrou

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

Affiliations Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX2 6GG, United Kingdom

Henry Forster

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Government Statistics Service, Department of Health and Social Care, Leeds, LS2 7UE, United Kingdom

Simon de Lusignan

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX2 6GG, United Kingdom, Royal College of General Practitioners, London, NW1 2FB, United Kingdom

Ivelina Yonova

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX2 6GG, United Kingdom, Royal College of General Practitioners, London, NW1 2FB, United Kingdom

Matt J. Keeling

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology & Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research, School of Life Sciences and Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Although not directly related to this study, Simon de Lusignan has received funding through his University for membership of advisory boards for Sanofi and Sequirus, and funding for influenza vaccine studies from GSK and Seqirus. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.