About the Authors

Nikos I. Bosse

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, 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, London, United Kingdom, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Modelling & Health Economics

Sam Abbott

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, 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, 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

Edwin van Leeuwen

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Modelling & Health Economics, Modelling & Economics Unit and NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Modelling & Health Economics, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom

Johannes Bracher

Contributed equally to this work with: Johannes Bracher, Sebastian Funk

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

Affiliations Chair of Statistical Methods and Econometrics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, Computational Statistics Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany

Sebastian Funk

Contributed equally to this work with: Johannes Bracher, Sebastian Funk

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, 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, London, United Kingdom, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Modelling & Health Economics

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.