About the Authors

Bingyi Yang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

yangb@ufl.edu (BY); s.riley@imperial.ac.uk (SR); datc@ufl.edu (DATC)

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Justin Lessler

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Huachen Zhu

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Centre of Influenza Research, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Joint Institute of Virology (Shantou University–The University of Hong Kong), Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Chao Qiang Jiang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Guangzhou No.12 Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Jonathan M. Read

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Health Informatics Computing and Statistics, Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

James A. Hay

Roles Writing – review & editing

Current address: Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Kin On Kwok

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China, Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China, Shenzhen Research Institute of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Ruiyin Shen

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Guangzhou No.12 Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Yi Guan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Centre of Influenza Research, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Joint Institute of Virology (Shantou University–The University of Hong Kong), Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Steven Riley

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

yangb@ufl.edu (BY); s.riley@imperial.ac.uk (SR); datc@ufl.edu (DATC)

Affiliation MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Derek A. T. Cummings

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

yangb@ufl.edu (BY); s.riley@imperial.ac.uk (SR); datc@ufl.edu (DATC)

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.