A mechanistic and data-driven reconstruction of the time-varying reproduction number: Application to the COVID-19 epidemic

• Bernard Cazelles ,

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

  * E-mail: cazelles@bologie.ens.fr

  Affiliations Sorbonne Université, UMMISCO, Paris, France, INRAE, Université Paris-Saclay, MaIAGE, Jouy-en-Josas, France, Eco-Evolution Mathématique, IBENS, UMR 8197, CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7972-361X

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• Clara Champagne,

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

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, Universty of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Benjamin Nguyen-Van-Yen,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Eco-Evolution Mathématique, IBENS, UMR 8197, CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, Institut Pasteur, Unité de Génétique Fonctionnelle des Maladies Infectieuses, Paris, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0789-273X

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• Catherine Comiskey,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3528-777X

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• Elisabeta Vergu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Elisabeta Vergu, Benjamin Roche

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation INRAE, Université Paris-Saclay, MaIAGE, Jouy-en-Josas, France

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• Benjamin Roche

  Contributed equally to this work with: Elisabeta Vergu, Benjamin Roche

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MIVEGEC, IRD, CNRS and Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7975-4232

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