About the Authors

Dylan S. Geldenhuys

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

dylangeldenhuys1@gmail.com

Affiliations The South African Department of Science and Innovation-National Research Foundation (DSI-NRF) South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Shane Josias

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

Affiliations Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, School for Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Willie Brink

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Mulanga Makhubele

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Cang Hui

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Mathematical Biosciences Group, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Muizenberg, South Africa

Pietro Landi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Jeremy Bingham

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The South African Department of Science and Innovation-National Research Foundation (DSI-NRF) South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

John Hargrove

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

Affiliations The South African Department of Science and Innovation-National Research Foundation (DSI-NRF) South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Marijn C. Hazelbag

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The South African Department of Science and Innovation-National Research Foundation (DSI-NRF) South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, ExploreAI (Pty) Ltd., Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.