About the Authors

Thomas N. Vilches

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil

Affan Shoukat

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Claudia Pio Ferreira

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Biosciences, São Paulo State University, Botucatu, SP, Brazil

Seyed M. Moghadas

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

Moghadas@yorku.ca

Affiliation Agent-Based Modelling Laboratory, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

SMM has previously been commissioned by Medicago Inc. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. No other competing interests are declared.