About the Authors

Francis Anokye

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

fanokye@mun.ca

Affiliation Interdisciplinary - School of Graduate Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Michael W. Z. Li

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Science Policy Integration Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Steve Walker

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Amy Hurford

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, Department of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: A.H. was a member of the COVID-19 Predictive Analytics Modelling Group that supported the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador during the pandemic. The authors have declared that no other competing interests exist.