About the Authors

Nikos I. Bosse

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

nikos.bosse@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases (members of the CMMID COVID-19 working group are listed in S1 Acknowledgements), London, United Kingdom

Sam Abbott

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases (members of the CMMID COVID-19 working group are listed in S1 Acknowledgements), London, United Kingdom

Johannes Bracher

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Economic Theory and Statistics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Habakuk Hain

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany

Billy J. Quilty

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases (members of the CMMID COVID-19 working group are listed in S1 Acknowledgements), London, United Kingdom

Mark Jit

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases (members of the CMMID COVID-19 working group are listed in S1 Acknowledgements), London, United Kingdom

Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases COVID-19 Working Group

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases (members of the CMMID COVID-19 working group are listed in S1 Acknowledgements), London, United Kingdom

Edwin van Leeuwen

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom

Anne Cori

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Sebastian Funk

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases (members of the CMMID COVID-19 working group are listed in S1 Acknowledgements), London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.