Why do some coronaviruses become pandemic threats when others do not?

• Benjamin L. Rice ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin L. Rice, Justin Lessler, Clifton McKee, C. Jessica E. Metcalf

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Justin Lessler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin L. Rice, Justin Lessler, Clifton McKee, C. Jessica E. Metcalf

  * E-mail: jlessler@unc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Clifton McKee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin L. Rice, Justin Lessler, Clifton McKee, C. Jessica E. Metcalf

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• C. Jessica E. Metcalf

  Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin L. Rice, Justin Lessler, Clifton McKee, C. Jessica E. Metcalf

  Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3166-7521

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