About the Authors

Ke Li

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

ke.li.kl662@yale.edu (KL); nathan.grubaugh@yale.edu (NDG)

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Public Health Modeling Unit, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Chrispin Chaguza

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Public Health Modeling Unit, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Julian Stamp

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Computational Molecular Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Yi Ting Chew

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Public Health Modeling Unit, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Nicholas F. G. Chen

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

David Ferguson

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Yale School of Medicine Biorepository, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Sameer Pandya

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Yale School of Medicine Biorepository, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Nick Kerantzas

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Yale School of Medicine Biorepository, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Wade Schulz

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Yale School of Medicine Biorepository, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Yale SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Surveillance Initiative

Authors of Yale SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Surveillance Initiative are listed in the Acknowledgments.

Anne M. Hahn

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

C. Brandon Ogbunugafor

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Public Health Modeling Unit, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Virginia E. Pitzer

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Public Health Modeling Unit, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Lorin Crawford

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Computational Molecular Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Daniel M. Weinberger

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Public Health Modeling Unit, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Nathan D. Grubaugh

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

ke.li.kl662@yale.edu (KL); nathan.grubaugh@yale.edu (NDG)

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Public Health Modeling Unit, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: NDG is a paid consultant for BioNTech, DMW has received consulting fees from Pfizer, Merck, and GSK, unrelated to this manuscript, and has been PI on research grants from Pfizer and Merck to Yale, unrelated to this manuscript.