Consistent pattern of epidemic slowing across many geographies led to longer, flatter initial waves of the COVID-19 pandemic

• Michal Ben-Nun ,

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

  * E-mail: mbennun@predsci.com

  Affiliation Predictive Science Inc., San Diego California United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9164-0008

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• Pete Riley,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Predictive Science Inc., San Diego California United States of America

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• James Turtle,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Predictive Science Inc., San Diego California United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0735-7769

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• Steven Riley

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

  Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7904-4804

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