About the Authors

Jiye Kwon

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

jiye.kwon@yale.edu

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

Ke Li

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, 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

Joshua L. Warren

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

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

Sameer Pandya

Roles Data curation

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

Anne M. Hahn

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

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Yale SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Surveillance Initiative
Virginia E. Pitzer

Contributed equally to this work with: Virginia E. Pitzer, Daniel M. Weinberger, Nathan D. Grubaugh

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, 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

Daniel M. Weinberger

Contributed equally to this work with: Virginia E. Pitzer, Daniel M. Weinberger, Nathan D. Grubaugh

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, 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

Nathan D. Grubaugh

Contributed equally to this work with: Virginia E. Pitzer, Daniel M. Weinberger, Nathan D. Grubaugh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, 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, 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: VEP has received funding from Merck for an investigator-initiated grant unrelated to the topic of this manuscript. DMW has received consulting fees from Pfizer, Merck, and GSK, unrelated to this project, and has been a Principal Investigator on grants from Pfizer, Merck, and GSK to Yale University. JLW has received consulting fees and grant funding from Pfizer unrelated to this project. NDG is a paid consultant for BioNTech and a principal Investigator on grants from Merck. All other authors declare no competing interests.