About the Authors

Yiu Chung Lau

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Ranawaka A. P. M. Perera

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Vicky J. Fang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Long Hei Luk

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Daniel K. W. Chu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Peng Wu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Ian G. Barr

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

J. S. Malik Peiris

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, HKU-Pasteur Research Pole, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Benjamin J. Cowling

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

bcowling@hku.hk

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Competing Interests

BJC has received honoraria from Roche and Sanofi. The authors report no other potential conflicts of interest. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.