About the Authors

Patrick Saunders-Hastings

patrick.saundershastings@gmail.com

Affiliations University of Ottawa, McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, 850 Peter Morand Crescent, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, University of Ottawa, School of Epidemiology, Public Health, and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Bryson Quinn Hayes

Affiliation University of Ottawa, Department of Mathematics, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Robert Smith?

Affiliations University of Ottawa, School of Epidemiology, Public Health, and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ottawa, ON, Canada, University of Ottawa, Department of Mathematics, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Daniel Krewski

Affiliations University of Ottawa, McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, 850 Peter Morand Crescent, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, University of Ottawa, School of Epidemiology, Public Health, and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Competing Interests

DK is the Chief Executive Officer of Risk Sciences International, a risk management consulting firm that has conducted research related to pandemic influenza. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PSH. Data curation: PSH BH. Formal analysis: PSH BH. Investigation: PSH. Methodology: PSH BH RS?. Project administration: PSH. Software: BH. Supervision: DK RS?. Validation: PSH. Visualization: PSH. Writing – original draft: PSH. Writing – review & editing: PSH BH RS? DK.