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Dynamic planning of a two-dose vaccination campaign with uncertain supplies

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  • Calafiore, Giuseppe Carlo
  • Parino, Francesco
  • Zino, Lorenzo
  • Rizzo, Alessandro

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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led public health authorities to face the unprecedented challenge of planning a global vaccination campaign, which for most protocols entails the administration of two doses, separated by a bounded but flexible time interval. The partial immunity already offered by the first dose and the high levels of uncertainty in the vaccine supplies have been characteristic of most of the vaccination campaigns implemented worldwide and made the planning of such interventions extremely complex. Motivated by this compelling challenge, we propose a stochastic optimization framework for optimally scheduling a two-dose vaccination campaign in the presence of uncertain supplies, taking into account constraints on the interval between the two doses and on the capacity of the healthcare system. The proposed framework seeks to maximize the vaccination coverage, considering the different levels of immunization obtained with partial (one dose only) and complete vaccination (two doses). We cast the optimization problem as a convex second-order cone program, which can be efficiently solved through numerical techniques. We demonstrate the potential of our framework on a case study calibrated on the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Italy. The proposed method shows good performance when unrolled in a sliding-horizon fashion, thereby offering a powerful tool to help public health authorities calibrate the vaccination campaign, pursuing a trade-off between efficacy and the risk associated with shortages in supply.

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  • Calafiore, Giuseppe Carlo & Parino, Francesco & Zino, Lorenzo & Rizzo, Alessandro, 2023. "Dynamic planning of a two-dose vaccination campaign with uncertain supplies," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 304(3), pages 1269-1278.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ejores:v:304:y:2023:i:3:p:1269-1278
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2022.05.009
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