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Enhancing Mass Vaccination Programs with Queueing Theory and Spatial Optimization.

Sherrie XieMaria RiedersSrisa ChangolkarBhaswar B BhattacharyaElvis W DiazMichael Z LevyRicardo Castillo-Neyra
Published in: medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences (2024)
One should consider losses from queueing to optimally place mass vaccination sites, even when empirically derived queueing parameters are not available. Due to the negative impacts of excessive wait times on participant satisfaction, reducing queueing attrition is also expected to yield downstream benefits and improve vaccination coverage in subsequent mass vaccination campaigns.
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