About the Authors

Daniela Niemeyer

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

Affiliations Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research, associated partner Charité, Berlin, Germany

Kirstin Mösbauer

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

Eva M. Klein

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

Andrea Sieberg

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

Robert C. Mettelman

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University of Chicago, Maywood, IL, United States of America

Anna M. Mielech

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University of Chicago, Maywood, IL, United States of America

Ronald Dijkman

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Institute of Virology and Immunology, Bern & Mittelhäusern, Switzerland, Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Susan C. Baker

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University of Chicago, Maywood, IL, United States of America

Christian Drosten

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Drosten, Marcel A. Müller

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

christian.drosten@charite.de (CD); marcel.mueller@charite.de (MAM)

Affiliations Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research, associated partner Charité, Berlin, Germany

Marcel A. Müller

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Drosten, Marcel A. Müller

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

christian.drosten@charite.de (CD); marcel.mueller@charite.de (MAM)

Affiliations Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research, associated partner Charité, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.