Using COVID-19 Data on Vaccine Shipments and Wastage to Inform Modeling and Decision-Making
Using COVID-19 Data on Vaccine Shipments and Wastage to Inform Modeling and Decision-Making
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DOI：
10.1287/trsc.2022.1134
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发表时间：
2022-04-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Vergano, Dan
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作者：
Hajibabai, Leila;Hajbabaie, Ali;Vergano, Dan
自2019冠状病毒病疫情爆发以来，许多供应链都出现了中断，特别是个人防护设备、检测试剂盒，甚至是必需的家庭用品。有效预防COVID-19的疫苗于2020年底在美国获批紧急使用，这导致了历史上最广泛的疫苗接种运动之一。我们持续收集美国疫苗分配、运输和分发、管理和库存的数据，涵盖整个疫苗接种活动。在本文中，我们描述了我们合作获得的一些数据集。我们正在公布这些数据，并将其免费提供给研究人员、媒体组织和其他利益相关者，以便其他人可以利用这些数据来了解当前大流行期间疫苗的分配和浪费情况，或为未来的大流行应对提供信息。本文概述了美国的疫苗分销物流，描述了我们获得的数据，概述了其他人如何访问和使用这些数据，并描述了一些高层次的分析，展示了数据的某些方面（针对2021年1月1日至2021年3月31日期间收集的数据）。本文还提供了未来的研究方向，使用所收集的数据。我们的目标有两个方面：（i）我们希望以多种创造性的方式利用这些数据，为当前和未来的大流行病应对工作提供信息。(ii)我们还希望激励其他研究人员及时公开他们的数据。
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, disruptions have been experienced in many supply chains, particularly in personal protective equipment, testing kits, and even essential household goods. Effective vaccines to protect against COVID-19 were approved for emergency use in the United States in late 2020, which led to one of the most extensive vaccination campaigns in history. We continuously collect data on vaccine allocation, shipment and distribution, administration, and inventory in the United States, covering the entire vaccination campaign. In this article, we describe some data sets that we collaborated to obtain. We are publishing the data and making them freely available to researchers, media organizations, and other stakeholders so that others may use the data to develop insights about the distribution and wastage of vaccines during the current pandemic or to provide an informed future pandemic response. This article gives an overview of vaccine distribution logistics in the United States, describes the data we obtain, outlines how they may be accessed and used by others, and describes some high-level analyses demonstrating some aspects of the data (for data collected during January 1, 2021-March 31, 2021). This article also provides directions for future research using the collected data. Our goal is two-fold: (i) We would like the data to be used in many creative ways to inform the current and future pandemic response. (ii) We also want to inspire other researchers to make their data publicly available in a timely manner.