About the Authors

Tini Garske

t.garske@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Hongjie Yu

Affiliation Office for Disease Control and Emergency Response, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Zhibin Peng

Affiliation Office for Disease Control and Emergency Response, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Min Ye

Affiliation Office for Disease Control and Emergency Response, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Hang Zhou

Affiliation Office for Disease Control and Emergency Response, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Xiaowen Cheng

Affiliation Department of Communicable Disease Prevention and Control, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China

Jiabing Wu

Affiliation Department of Communicable Disease Prevention and Control, Anhui Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hefei, People's Republic of China

Neil Ferguson

Affiliation 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: NF HY. Performed the experiments: ZP MY HZ XC JW. Analyzed the data: TG. Wrote the paper: TG NF HY.