About the Authors

Laura Matrajt

laurama@uw.edu

Current address: Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

M. Elizabeth Halloran

Affiliations Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ira M. Longini Jr

Affiliations Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Colleges of Medicine, and Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LM MEH IML. Performed the experiments: LM. Analyzed the data: LM. Wrote the paper: LM MEH IML.