Researchers Roll Out Data on COVID Vaccine Distribution and Waste
For Immediate Release
Researchers are rolling out a data set that provides detailed information on COVID-19 vaccine shipments and wastage across the United States, with the goal of spurring new data analysis to improve vaccination efforts in the future. The work stems from a collaboration between researchers at North Carolina State University and BuzzFeed News.
“The development and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines has been a monumental undertaking,” says Ali Hajbabaie, corresponding author of the paper and an assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering at NC State. “And while it’s been a remarkable accomplishment, there are also opportunities for us to learn how to improve the vaccine supply chain. What are the logistical challenges associated with transportation and distribution of vaccines for COVID-19? How can we study this? What can we learn from it?”
“For this work, we focused on collecting data regarding vaccine shipment and wastage,” says Leila Hajibabai, co-author of the paper and an assistant professor in NC State’s Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. “And we’re making that data publicly available to encourage the broader research community to analyze the data so that we can learn as much from it as possible. We also want to inspire other researchers to make their data publicly available in a timely manner.”
“We did some simple analyses in this paper to highlight the potential of the data, but we think there is much more to be done, and we want to tap into the expertise of other researchers to make the most of this information,” says Hajbabaie.
研究人员从疾病控制和预防中心收集了疫苗装运数据（CDC）。该数据包括疫苗的类型，疫苗的量，以及每个特定发货的日期被送到47,188个特定疫苗接种位点，例如诊所，医院，药房和医生办公室。
研究人员还将CDC的数据收集到被宠坏的疫苗的数量，并且必须被获奖者所处理。这可能是因为样品瓶被破坏，因为它被储存在不正当的温度下，因为它已经过到期日，等等。获奖者是负责监督特定疫苗接种地点的大型实体。全国92名奖项，研究人员从其中58人浪费了数据。奖励的例子包括个别国家，联邦实体，如国防部，退伍军人卫生管理等联邦计划，以及CVS和Walgreen等大型零售商。浪费数据是半定期报告的 - 通常每天，但并非总是如此。
“这一数据在CDC之外没有提供，直到我们要求它，”Hajbabaie说。“我们只能通过与BuzzFeed的合作来获取此数据，从而在FOIA请求下从CDC获得数据。”
This paper includes the shipment and wastage data from Jan. 1, 2021 to March 31, 2021.
“However, we think it is possible that there will be significantly more data forthcoming,” Hajbabaie says. “For example, the CDC provided us with additional shipment data from December 2021. However, we received that too recently to include in this paper.”
“In the paper, we outline some directions for future work, such as how to account for vaccine hesitancy in order to optimize the supply chain and distribution network for vaccination moving forward,” Hajibabai says. “For example, we can estimate the demand and waste accordingly and make recommendations to seamlessly schedule patients and reduce wastage.
“But it’s not an exhaustive list. While we are continuing to work with this data set ourselves, we’re sure there are things we haven’t thought of. That’s one of the reasons we think it is important for the research community to make its data publicly available in a timely manner – it will allow all of us to make progress on real-world challenges more quickly.”
The paper, “使用Covid-19数据关于疫苗出货量和浪费以告知建模和决策,” is published open access in the journalTransportation Science。本文由Buzzfeed News和Julie Swann的Dan Vergano，部门负责人和A. Doug Allison尊敬的NC州Fits of Industry and Systems Engineering Fights of Indights Technited of Tangs Allison杰出教授。
的工作was done with support from the National Science Foundation under grant number 2124825, and under cooperative agreement number NU38OT000297 from the CDC and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.
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Note to Editors:The study abstract follows.
“使用Covid-19关于疫苗出货量和浪费的数据，以告知建模和决策”
作者: Leila Hajibabai, Ali Hajbabaie and Julie Swann, North Carolina State University; Dan Vergano, Buzzfeed News
Published：4月1日，Transportation Science
DOI：10.1287 / trsc.2022.1134
Abstract:自Covid-19大流行的开始以来，许多供应链中经历了中断，特别是在个人防护装备，测试套件，甚至基本家用品中。在2020年代后期，美国批准用于保护Covid-19的有效疫苗被批准用于美国的紧急用途，导致历史上最广泛的疫苗接种活动之一。我们不断收集美国疫苗分配，发货和分销，管理和库存的数据，涵盖整个疫苗接种活动。在本文中，我们描述了我们合作获取的一些数据集。我们正在发布数据并使它们自由地提供给研究人员，媒体组织和其他利益相关者，以便其他人可以使用这些数据来开发关于当前大流行期间疫苗分配和浪费的见解，或提供明智的未来大流行反应。本文概述了美国疫苗分布物流，描述了我们获得的数据，概述了他们如何被他人访问和使用，并描述了一些高级分析，展示了数据的某些方面（用于1月期间收集的数据）1,2021-3月31,2021）。本文还提供了使用收集数据的未来研究的指示。我们的目标是两倍：（i）我们希望以许多创造性的方式使用数据来告知当前和未来的大流行反应。（ii）我们还希望激发其他研究人员，以及时公开提供他们的数据。
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