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Policies for biodefense revisited: The prioritized vaccination process for smallpox

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  • Moshe Kress

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Handling bioterror events that involve contagious agents is a major concern for authorities and a cause for debate among policymakers about the best response policy. At the core of this debate stands the question which of the two post-event policies to adopt: mass vaccination or trace (also called ring or targeted) vaccination. We present a new dynamic epidemic-intervention model that captures key features of the situation and generalizes some previous assumptions regarding the probability distributions of inter-temporal parameters. It is shown that a mixture of mass and trace vaccination policies—the prioritized vaccination policy—is more effective than either of the two aforementioned policies. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, LCC 2006

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  • Moshe Kress, 2006. "Policies for biodefense revisited: The prioritized vaccination process for smallpox," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 148(1), pages 5-23, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:annopr:v:148:y:2006:i:1:p:5-23:10.1007/s10479-006-0077-9
    DOI: 10.1007/s10479-006-0077-9
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    1. Juliano Marçal Lopes & Coralys Colon Morales & Michelle Alvarado & Vidal Augusto Z. C. Melo & Leonardo Batista Paiva & Eduardo Mario Dias & Panos M. Pardalos, 2022. "Optimization methods for large-scale vaccine supply chains: a rapid review," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 316(1), pages 699-721, September.

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