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G.toebii could hydrolysis casein and utilize n-alkanes as carbon source27.Figure 2(a) Phylogenetic tree based on 16S rDNA gene sequences from related species of the genus Geobacillus constructed using the neighbour-joining method with 1000 bootstrap replicates. Branch length is indicated at each node. (b) The growth curve of strain GT-02 with temperature. (c) The growth curve of strain GT-02 with pH.Full size imageThe growth characteristics of strain GT-02, such as temperature and pH values, were investigated. The bacterial strain could grow within a range of 40–75 °C and pH 6.50–9.50, and the optimum temperature and pH were 65 °C and 7.50, respectively (Fig. 2b,c). Compared to other G.toebii strains, the maximum growth temperature and pH of strains R-32652 and SK-1 were 70 °C and 9.0026,28, respectively. These results showed that strain GT-02 was more resistant to high temperature and alkalinity. Fermentation temperature above 70 °C could effectively inactivate harmful microorganisms in organic solid waste12. Therefore, the fermentation temperature was set at 70 °C in this study.Changes in the composition of bean dregs during fermentationChanges in GI, TOC and TN of bean dregs during fermentationThe GI is traditionally used to evaluate the phytotoxicity and maturity of organic fertilizer12. As shown in Fig. 3a, both groups of experiments reached the standard of maturity (GI ≥ 85.00%). Therefore, the fermentation was terminated in five days. In the initial stage of fermentation, the GI of CK dropped to 51.85% on day 2, and the GI of T1 dropped to 41.98% on day 1. Phytotoxicity, which is usually caused by various heavy metals and low-molecular-weight substances, such as NH3 and organic acids, can reduce seed germination and inhibit root development29. During fermentation, bean dregs might produce NH3, organic acids and other substances, which could trigger a decrease in the GI. 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The TOC loss in both CK and T1 increased during fermentation (Fig. 3b). The reduction of TOC was mainly caused by the production of carbon dioxide from bacterial respiration. The rate of TOC loss in T1 was higher than that in CK. At the end of the fermentation, the TOC loss of T1 was 11.78% higher than that in CK. Because of the addition of G.toebii, bacterial metabolism in T1 was more active, and organic degradation was faster.The TN loss in both CK and T1 also showed an upward trend (Fig. 3c). The loss of TN was mainly caused by the volatilization of ammonia nitrogen31. The rate of TN loss in T1 increased more than that of CK group. After fermentation (day 5), the TN loss in T1 was 6.83% higher than that of CK. The mineralization in T1 was more active and thus ammonia nitrogen was more, which was easy to cause volatilization. However, the bean dregs in CK were mature on the 5th day, while those in T1 were on the 3rd day. At this time, the TN loss of mature bean dregs in T1 was 5.66% lower than that in CK, which indicated that the bean dregs lost less nitrogen source when they reached the standard of maturity after the addition of G.toebii.Changes in pH and EC of bean dregs during fermentationThe variation in pH observed during fermentation is due to the interaction between inorganic nitrogen and organic acids produced by the decomposition of organic matter32. As shown in Fig. 3d, the pH of CK gradually increased to 8.72 at the end of the fermentation. The ammonification process and the release of free NH3 during organic matter (OM) degradation lead to increases in pH33. The pH of T1 decreased to 5.73 on day 1, which was due to the formation of more organic acids than CK, and then increased to 8.76 on day 2, which was due to acid consumption and ammonia formation. Figure 2c showed that GT-02 could hardly grow when the pH was lower than 6.00, but the heterogeneity of solid fermentation provided a possible living environment for the growth of GT-02. Subsequently, the pH of T1 slowly decreased to 8.10 due to ammonia volatilization or ammonia conversion. These study findings showed that the pH value of the fermentation process was significantly affected by the addition of GT-02. G.toebii can produce abundant high-temperature enzymes, such as amylase, protease, cellulase, xylanase, and mannanase17, which explains why the ammonification process was faster in T1 than in CK and thus the higher pH was found in T1.The EC, which is a measure of the total ion concentration, describes changes in the levels of organic and inorganic ions such as SO42−, Na+, NH4+, K+, Cl−, and NO3− during the fermentation process34. As shown in Fig. 3e, the EC of the two groups increased significantly during fermentation process (P  More

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    Infection-age structured dynamicsFor the description of the dynamics, we follow the customary infection-age structured approach (for details see for instance Refs.4,10,11,12). Explicitly, we consider the infection-age structured dynamics of the number of individuals ({u}_{I}left(t,tau right)) at time (t) who were infected at time (t-tau) given by$$begin{array}{c}frac{partial }{partial t}{u}_{I}left(t,tau right)+frac{partial }{partial tau }{u}_{I}left(t,tau right)=0end{array}$$
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    with boundary condition$$begin{array}{c}{u}_{I}left(t,0right)=jleft(tright).end{array}$$
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    Here, (tau) is the time elapsed after infection, referred to as infection age, and (jleft(tright)={int }_{0}^{infty }{k}_{I}(t,tau ){u}_{I}left(t,tau right)dtau) is the incidence, with ({k}_{I}(t,tau )) being the rate of secondary transmissions per single primary case.The solution is obtained through the method of characteristics32 as$$begin{array}{c}{u}_{I}left(t,tau right)=jleft(t-tau right)end{array}$$
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    for (tge tau) and ({u}_{I}left(t,tau right)=0) for (t1 for countries and for US locations.The daily death counts (Delta {n}_{W}left(tright)={n}_{W}left(tright)-{n}_{W}left(t-1right)) are considered to contain reporting artifacts if they are negative or if they are unrealistically large. This last condition is defined explicitly as larger than 4 times its previous 14-day average value plus 10 deaths, (Delta {n}_{W}left(tright) >10+4times frac{1}{14}left({n}_{W}left(tright)-{n}_{W}left(t-14right)right)), from a non-sparse reporting schedule with at least 2 consecutive non-zero values before and after the time (t), (Delta {n}_{W}left(tright)ne frac{1}{5}left({n}_{W}left(t+2right)-{n}_{W}left(t-3right)right)).Reporting artifacts identified at time (t) are considered to be the result of previous miscounting. The excess or lack of deaths are imputed proportionally to previous death counts. Explicitly, death counts are updated as$$begin{array}{c}{n}_{W}left(t-1-iright)leftarrow {n}_{W}left(t-1-iright)frac{{n}_{W}{left(t-1right)}_{estimated}}{{n}_{W}left(t-1right)}end{array}$$
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    with$$begin{array}{c}{r}_{1} = {e}^{-0.3d{d}_{1}},end{array}$$
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    $$begin{array}{c}{r}_{2} = {e}^{-3d{d}_{2}},end{array}$$
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    $$begin{array}{c}d{d}_{0}={ma}_{14}left({ma}_{14}left(Delta {n}_{W}left(tright)right)right),end{array}$$
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    $$begin{array}{c}d{d}_{1}={rg}_{12}left({ma}_{14}left(Delta {n}_{W}left(tright)right)right),end{array}$$
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    $$begin{array}{c}d{d}_{2}={rg}_{48}left({ma}_{14}left(Delta {n}_{W}left(tright)right)right),end{array}$$
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    where ({ma}_{14}left(cdot right)) is a centered moving average with window size of 14 days and ({rg}_{sigma }left(cdot right)) is a centered rolling average through a Gaussian window with standard deviation (sigma). The specific value of the window size has been chosen to mitigate weekly reporting effects. The values of the standard deviations of the Gaussian windows have been selected to achieve a smooth representation of the expected death estimation for each country as shown in the bottom panels of Supplementary Fig. S1.Reporting delaysWe consider an average delay of two days between reporting a death and its occurrence. This value is obtained by comparing the daily death counts reported for Spain1 and their actual values33 from February 15 to March 31, 2020. The values of the root-mean-squared deviation between reported and actual deaths shifted by 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 days are 77.9, 58.4, 38.5, 58.7, and 88.6 deaths respectively.Infection fatality rate ((IFR))The infection fatality rate is computed assuming homogeneous attack rate as$$begin{array}{c}IFR=frac{1}{{sum }_{a}{g}_{a}}{sum }_{a}{IFR}_{a}{g}_{a} ,end{array}$$
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    where ({mathrm{IFR}}_{a}) is the previously estimated (IFR) for the age group (a)5 and ({g}_{a}) is the population in the age group (a) as reported by the United Nations for countries18 and the US Census for states19.Clinical parametersWe obtained the values of the average ({tau }_{G}) and standard deviation ({sigma }_{G}) of the generation time from Ref.13, of the averages of the incubation ({tau }_{I}) and symptom onset-to-death ({tau }_{OD}) times from Refs.5,14, and of the average number of days (Delta {t}_{TP}) of positive testing by an infected individual from Refs.15,17. The average time at which an individual tested positive after infection ({tau }_{TP}) was computed as ({tau }_{TP}={tau }_{I}-2+Delta {t}_{TP}/2), where we have assumed that on average an individual started to test positive 2 days before symptom onset. The average seroconversion time after infection ({tau }_{SP}) was estimated as ({tau }_{I}) plus the 7 days of 50% seroconversion after symptom onset reported in Ref.16.Dynamical constraints implementation with discrete timeWe implemented the dynamical constraints to compute the infectious and infected population as outlined in the main text and as detailed in the previous section of this document, using days as time units. Time delays were rounded to days to assign daily values.The first derivative of the cumulative number of deaths is computed as$$begin{array}{c}frac{d{n}_{D}left(tright)}{dt}=Delta {n}_{D}left(tright),end{array}$$
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    The 7-day value was chosen to mitigate reporting artifacts.Confidence and credibility intervalsConfidence intervals associated with death counts were computed using bootstrapping with 10,000 realizations34. These confidence intervals were combined with the credibility intervals of the (IFR) in infectious and infected populations assuming independence and additivity on a logarithmic scale.Fold accuracyThe fold accuracy, ({F}_{A}), is explicitly computed as$$begin{array}{c}{mathrm{log}}{F}_{A}=frac{1}{N}{sum }_{i=1}^{N}left|{mathrm{log}}{x}_{i}^{obs}-{mathrm{log}}{x}_{i}^{est}right|,end{array}$$
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