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Edited by Andrea Rinaldo, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, and approved December 14, 2020 (received for review September 18, 2020)
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- Published in issue January 26, 2021.
- Published online January 7, 2021.
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- Valentina Marzianoa,1,
- Giorgio Guzzettaa,1,
- Bruna Maria Rondinoneb,
- Fabio Boccunib,
- Flavia Riccardoc,
- Antonino Bellac,
- Piero Polettia,
- Filippo Trentinia,
- Patrizio Pezzottic,
- Silvio Brusaferroc,
- Giovanni Rezzac,
- Sergio Iavicolib,
- Marco Ajellid,e, and
- Stefano Merlera,2
- aCenter for Health Emergencies, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento 38123, Italy;
- bDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Epidemiology and Hygiene, Italian Workers’ Compensation Authority, Monteporzio Catone (Rome) 00078, Italy;
- cDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome 00161, Italy;
- dDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Public Health, Bloomington, IN 47405;
- eLaboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115
Edited by Andrea Rinaldo, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, and approved December 14, 2020 (received for review September 18, 2020)
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↵1V.M. and G.G. contributed equally to this work.
- ↵2To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: merler{at}fbk.eu.
Author contributions: G.G., S.B., G.R., S.I., M.A., and S.M. designed research; V.M., G.G., B.M.R., F.B., P. Poletti, and F.T. performed research; V.M., G.G., B.M.R., F.B., A.B., P. Poletti, and F.T. analyzed data; and V.M., G.G., F.R., P. Poletti, F.T., P. Pezzotti, M.A., and S.M. wrote the paper.
Competing interest statement: M.A. has received research funding from Seqirus. The funding is not related to COVID-19. All other authors declare no competing interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
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