Seasonal forcing and waning immunity drive the sub-annual periodicity of the COVID-19 epidemic

• Ilan N. Rubin ,

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

  * E-mail: ilan.n.rubin@gmail.com

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5820-2068

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• Mary Bushman,

  Roles Methodology, Software

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

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• Marc Lipsitch,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

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• William P. Hanage

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

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

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