Age could be driving variable SARS-CoV-2 epidemic trajectories worldwide

• Houssein H. Ayoub ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Houssein H. Ayoub, Hiam Chemaitelly

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  * E-mail: hayoub@qu.edu.qa (HHA); lja2002@qatar-med.cornell.edu (LJA)

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2512-6657

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• Hiam Chemaitelly ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Houssein H. Ayoub, Hiam Chemaitelly

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation – Education City, Doha, Qatar, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Disease Epidemiology Analytics on HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Viral Hepatitis, Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation – Education City, Doha, Qatar

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8756-6968

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• Shaheen Seedat,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation – Education City, Doha, Qatar, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Disease Epidemiology Analytics on HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Viral Hepatitis, Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation – Education City, Doha, Qatar, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York City, New York, United States of America

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• Ghina R. Mumtaz,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Monia Makhoul,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation – Education City, Doha, Qatar, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Disease Epidemiology Analytics on HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Viral Hepatitis, Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation – Education City, Doha, Qatar, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York City, New York, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0138-5286

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• Laith J. Abu-Raddad

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hayoub@qu.edu.qa (HHA); lja2002@qatar-med.cornell.edu (LJA)

  Affiliations Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation – Education City, Doha, Qatar, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Disease Epidemiology Analytics on HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Viral Hepatitis, Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation – Education City, Doha, Qatar, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York City, New York, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0790-0506

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