论文标题
部署疫苗分配地点以提高可访问性和公平性以支持大流行响应
Deploying Vaccine Distribution Sites for Improved Accessibility and Equity to Support Pandemic Response
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论文摘要
为了回应Covid-19，许多国家都要求社会疏远并禁止大型团体聚会，以减慢SARS-COV-2的传播。这些社会干预措施以及疫苗仍然是减少SARS COV-2传播的最佳前进方法。为了提高疫苗接种性，弗吉尼亚州等州已经部署了移动疫苗接种中心，以在全州分发疫苗。选择将这些站点放置在哪里时，有两个重要因素需要考虑：可访问性和权益。我们制定了一个组合问题，该问题捕获了这些因素，然后在这两个方面都具有理论保证的有效算法。此外，我们研究了问题的固有硬度，并表现出强烈的不可能结果。最后，我们在现实世界数据上运行计算实验，以显示我们方法的功效。
In response to COVID-19, many countries have mandated social distancing and banned large group gatherings in order to slow down the spread of SARS-CoV-2. These social interventions along with vaccines remain the best way forward to reduce the spread of SARS CoV-2. In order to increase vaccine accessibility, states such as Virginia have deployed mobile vaccination centers to distribute vaccines across the state. When choosing where to place these sites, there are two important factors to take into account: accessibility and equity. We formulate a combinatorial problem that captures these factors and then develop efficient algorithms with theoretical guarantees on both of these aspects. Furthermore, we study the inherent hardness of the problem, and demonstrate strong impossibility results. Finally, we run computational experiments on real-world data to show the efficacy of our methods.
