About the Authors

Diana Buitrago-Garcia

Contributed equally to this work with: Diana Buitrago-Garcia, Aziz Mert Ipekci, Leonie Heron

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Graduate School of Health Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Aziz Mert Ipekci

Contributed equally to this work with: Diana Buitrago-Garcia, Aziz Mert Ipekci, Leonie Heron

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

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Leonie Heron

Contributed equally to this work with: Diana Buitrago-Garcia, Aziz Mert Ipekci, Leonie Heron

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

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Hira Imeri

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Lucia Araujo-Chaveron

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations EHESP French School of Public Health, Paris and Rennes, France, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Ingrid Arevalo-Rodriguez

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Biostatistics Unit, Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal, IRYCIS, CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health, Madrid, Spain

Agustín Ciapponi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria (IECS-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Muge Cevik

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infection and Global Health Research, School of Medicine, University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

Anthony Hauser

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

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Muhammad Irfanul Alam

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation EHESP French School of Public Health, Paris and Rennes, France

Kaspar Meili

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Eric A. Meyerowitz

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America

Nirmala Prajapati

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France

Xueting Qiu

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Aaron Richterman

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

William Gildardo Robles-Rodriguez

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fundación Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud, Bogotá, Colombia

Shabnam Thapa

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Manchester Centre for Health Economics, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Ivan Zhelyazkov

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Georgia Salanti

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

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Nicola Low

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

nicola.low@ispm.unibe.ch

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: NL is an academic editor at PLOS Medicine, received the grant funding from the organisations declared above, is a member of the Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force, and is on the scientific board of Sefunda, a start-up company that develops point-of-care diagnostics for sexually transmitted infections. DBG receives funding from the organisations declared above. AMI, LH, HI receive salary support from the grants to NL from the Swiss National Science Foundation 320030_176233, and/or European Union H2020 101003688