About the Authors

Felix Reichert

Contributed equally to this work with: Felix Reichert, Oliver Stier, Anne Hartmann

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

reichertf@rki.de

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, Postgraduate Training for Applied Epidemiology (PAE), Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden

Oliver Stier

Contributed equally to this work with: Felix Reichert, Oliver Stier, Anne Hartmann

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

Affiliation Technology, Siemens AG, Berlin, Germany

Anne Hartmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Felix Reichert, Oliver Stier, Anne Hartmann

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

Affiliation Hermann Rietschel-Institute, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Claudia Ruscher

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

Affiliation State Office for Health and Social Affairs, Berlin, Germany

Annika Brinkmann

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Marica Grossegesse

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Markus Neumann

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Dirk Werber

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Office for Health and Social Affairs, Berlin, Germany

Marius Hausner

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Local Health Authority “Berlin-Mitte”, Berlin, Germany

Mareike Kunze

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Local Health Authority “Berlin-Mitte”, Berlin, Germany

Bettina Weiß

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Local Health Authority “Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf”, Berlin, Germany

Janine Michel

Roles Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Andreas Nitsche

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Matthias an der Heiden

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Martin Kriegel

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hermann Rietschel-Institute, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Victor Max Corman

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin and German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Associated Partner Site at Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Terry Carleton Jones

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Virology, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin and German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Associated Partner Site at Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Centre for Pathogen Evolution, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Christian Drosten

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin and German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Associated Partner Site at Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Tobias Brommann

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Choir Association of the Protestant Church Berlin-Brandenburg-schlesische Oberlausitz, Berlin, Germany

Udo Buchholz

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

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Oliver Stier is named as inventor on a patent application filed recently regarding the determination of potentially infectious aerosol air concentrations. Victor M Corman is named on a patent application filed recently regarding the diagnostic of SARS-CoV-2 by antibody testing. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.