About the Authors

Matthew S. Mietchen

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

Affiliation Paul G. Allen School for Global Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Christopher T. Short

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Paul G. Allen School for Global Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Matthew Samore

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, VA Salt Lake City Healthcare System, Salt Lake City, Utah

Eric T. Lofgren

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Eric.Lofgren@wsu.edu

Affiliation Paul G. Allen School for Global Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

CDC Modeling Infectious Diseases in Healthcare Program (MInD-Healthcare)

Membership of MInD-Healthcare is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.