About the Authors

Hiam Chemaitelly

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

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation—Education City, Doha, Qatar

Nico Nagelkerke

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

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation—Education City, Doha, Qatar

Ryosuke Omori

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

Affiliation Division of Bioinformatics, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Laith J. Abu-Raddad

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

lja2002@qatar-med.cornell.edu

Affiliations Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation—Education City, Doha, Qatar, Department of Healthcare Policy & Research, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar

Competing Interests

JST, PRESTO provided research funding support in the form of salary for RO. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare.