About the Authors

Zhicheng Du

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

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliations Department of Medical Statistics, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Center for Health Information Research, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Sun Yat-sen Global Health Institute, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Wangjian Zhang

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

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliations Department of Medical Statistics, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Center for Health Information Research, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Sun Yat-sen Global Health Institute, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Shicheng Yu

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Shao Lin

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany, the State University of New York, Albany, New York, USA

Yuantao Hao

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

haoyt@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Medical Statistics, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Center for Health Information Research, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Sun Yat-sen Global Health Institute, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Peking University Center for Public Health and Epidemic Preparedness & Response, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.