About the Authors

Pete Riley

pete@predsci.com

Affiliation Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Michal Ben-Nun

Affiliation Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Richard Armenta

Affiliation Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Jon A. Linker

Affiliation Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Angela A. Eick

Affiliation Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Jose L. Sanchez

Affiliation Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Dylan George

Affiliation National Center for Medical Intelligence, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

David P. Bacon

Affiliation Science Applications International Corporation, McLean, Virginia, United States of America

Steven Riley

Affiliations Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America, MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PR SR DG DPB. Performed the experiments: PR MBN SR. Analyzed the data: PR MBN RA SR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AAE JLS. Wrote the paper: PR SR JAL DG DPB. Read manuscript and suggested improvements: MBN RA JAL AAE JLS DG DPB .