Bayesian reconstruction of household transmissions to infer the serial interval of COVID-19 by variants of concern: analysis from a prospective community cohort study (Virus Watch).

"CG is supported by a PhD studentship at Imperial College London funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Protection and Research Unit in Modelling and Health Economics, which is a partnership between the UK Health Security Agency, Imperial College London, and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (NIHR200908). ACH serves on the UK New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group. All other authors declare no competing interests."

"AcknowledgmentsThe research costs for the study have been supported by the UK Medical Research Council (MC_PC 19070, awarded to University College London [UCL] on March 30, 2020; and MR/V028375/1, awarded on Aug 17, 2020). The study also received US$15 000 of Facebook advertising credit to support a pilot social media recruitment campaign on Aug 18, 2020. This study was supported by the Wellcome Trust through a Wellcome Clinical Research Career Development Fellowship (206602) to RWA. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the Abstract. Data were collected by the UCL Virus Watch study. CG is supported by a PhD studentship at Imperial College London funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Protection and Research Unit in Modelling and Health Economics, which is a partnership between the UK Health Security Agency, Imperial College London, and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (NIHR200908). ACH serves on the UK New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group. All other authors declare no competing interests."