About the Authors

Elise J. Kuylen

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

elise.kuylen@uantwerpen.be

Affiliations Centre for Health Economic Research and Modeling Infectious Diseases, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Data Science Institute, I-BioStat, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium

Andrea Torneri

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Health Economic Research and Modeling Infectious Diseases, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Lander Willem

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Health Economic Research and Modeling Infectious Diseases, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Pieter J. K. Libin

Roles Conceptualization, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Data Science Institute, I-BioStat, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Steven Abrams

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Data Science Institute, I-BioStat, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium, Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Pietro Coletti

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Data Science Institute, I-BioStat, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium

Nicolas Franco

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Data Science Institute, I-BioStat, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium, Namur Institute for Complex Systems, Department of Mathematics, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium

Frederik Verelst

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: GSK, Wavre, Belgium

Affiliation Centre for Health Economic Research and Modeling Infectious Diseases, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Philippe Beutels

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Health Economic Research and Modeling Infectious Diseases, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Jori Liesenborgs

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Expertise Centre for Digital Media, Hasselt University - transnational University Limburg, Hasselt, Belgium

Niel Hens

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Health Economic Research and Modeling Infectious Diseases, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Data Science Institute, I-BioStat, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: FV contributed to this work as a full time employee of the University of Antwerp. As of 21 March 2022, after his contributions to this work ended, FV is employed by the GSK group of companies.