About the Authors

Markku Nurhonen

markku.nurhonen@thl.fi

Affiliation Department of Vaccination and Immune Protection, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Allen C. Cheng

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University and Infectious Diseases Unit, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Kari Auranen

Affiliation Department of Vaccination and Immune Protection, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Developed the model: MN ACC KA. Performed simulations and analyzed simulation results: MN KA. Participated in writing and critically reviewed the paper: AC. Wrote the paper: MN KA.