About the Authors

Alexander Lange

alange.publ@gmail.com

Affiliations MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Neil M. Ferguson

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AL NMF. Performed the experiments: AL. Analyzed the data: AL. Wrote the paper: AL NMF.