Objectives The four SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOC; Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta)
identified by May 2021 are highly transmissible, yet little is known about their impact on …

Problem definition: Mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic poses a series of unprecedented
challenges, including predicting new cases and deaths, understanding true prevalence …

The classical SIR model and its variants have seen great success in understanding and
predicting epidemics' spread. We extend the SIR model to incorporate the limited testing …

Decision analysis (DA) is an explicitly prescriptive discipline that separates beliefs about
uncertainties from value preferences in modeling to support decision making. Researchers …

To respond to pandemics such as COVID-19, policy makers have relied on interventions that
target specific population groups or activities. Such targeting is potentially contentious, so …

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted almost every facet of life globally and has posed
new challenges to policy makers and questions to researchers. In this article, we discuss …

Abstract In the United States, even though national guidelines for allocating scarce
healthcare resources are lacking, 26 states have specific ventilator allocation guidelines to …

COVID‐19 outbreaks in local communities can result in a drastic surge in demand for scarce
resources such as mechanical ventilators. To deal with such demand surges, many …

The classical SIR model and its variants have seen great success in understanding and
predicting infectious diseases' spread. To better capture the COVID-19 outbreak, we extend …

We explore the applicability of an Epi-Econ model to isolate the independent effect of
lockdown policies during COVID-19 in the Netherlands. Epi-Econ models allow for an …