Using an innovative method to develop the threshold of seasonal influenza epidemic in China

• Xunjie Cheng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xunjie Cheng, Tao Chen

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, China

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• Tao Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xunjie Cheng, Tao Chen

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Collaboration Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Bejing, China, Key Laboratory for Medical Virology, National Health and Family Planning Commission, Beijing, China

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• Yang Yang,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health and Health Professions, and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Jing Yang,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Collaboration Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Bejing, China, Key Laboratory for Medical Virology, National Health and Family Planning Commission, Beijing, China

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• Dayan Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Collaboration Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Bejing, China, Key Laboratory for Medical Virology, National Health and Family Planning Commission, Beijing, China

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• Guoqing Hu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yshu@cnic.org.cn (YS); huguoqing009@gmail.com (GH)

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5002-8015

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• Yuelong Shu

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yshu@cnic.org.cn (YS); huguoqing009@gmail.com (GH)

  Affiliations National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Collaboration Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Bejing, China, Key Laboratory for Medical Virology, National Health and Family Planning Commission, Beijing, China

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