About the Authors

Maximilian Gertler

maximilian.gertler@charite.de

Affiliations Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Berlin, Germany, Postgraduate Training for Applied Epidemiology (PAE), Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Berlin, Germany, European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training, ECDC, Stockholm, Sweden

Irina Czogiel

Affiliations Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Berlin, Germany, Postgraduate Training for Applied Epidemiology (PAE), Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Berlin, Germany

Klaus Stark

Affiliation Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Berlin, Germany

Hendrik Wilking

Affiliation Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HW KS MG. Data curation: HW MG. Formal analysis: HW IC MG. Funding acquisition: HW. Investigation: MG. Methodology: HW MG IC. Project administration: MG HW. Resources: KS. Supervision: HW KS. Validation: HW IC MG KS. Visualization: MG HW. Writing – original draft: MG. Writing – review & editing: MG HW KS IC.