About the Authors

Haokun Yuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Haokun Yuan, Sarah C. Kramer

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

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Sarah C. Kramer

Contributed equally to this work with: Haokun Yuan, Sarah C. Kramer

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

Current address: Infectious Disease Epidemiology group, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Campus Charité Mitte, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Eric H. Y. Lau

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health Limited, Hong Kong Science Park, New Territories, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Benjamin J. Cowling

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health Limited, Hong Kong Science Park, New Territories, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Wan Yang

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

wy2202@columbia.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: BJC reports receipt of honoraria from Roche and Sanofi. The rest of the authors have declared that no competing interests exist.