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Rebecca L Weintraub1, Kate Miller1, Benjamin Rader1
1At the time of this work, Rebecca L. Weintraub, Kate Miller, Julie Rosenberg, Shreyas Srinath, Samuel R. Woodbury, and Iman Ahmad were with Ariadne Labs, Boston, MA. Benjamin Rader, Marinanicole D. Schultheiss, Molly E. Chiang, and John S. Brownstein were with Computational Epidemiology Lab, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston. Mansi Kansal, Swapnil Vispute, Stylianos Serghiou, Gerardo Flores, Akim Kumok, Tomer Shekel, and Evgeniy Gabrilovich were with Google Inc, Mountain View, CA.
Abstract:
A private-academic partnership built the Vaccine Equity Planner (VEP) to help decision-makers improve geographic access to COVID-19 vaccinations across the United States by identifying vaccine deserts and facilities that could fill those deserts. The VEP presented complex, updated data in an intuitive form during a rapidly changing pandemic situation. The persistence of vaccine deserts in every state as COVID-19 booster recommendations develop suggests that vaccine delivery can be improved. Underresourced public health systems benefit from tools providing real-time, accurate, actionable data. (Am J Public Health. 2023;113(4):363-367. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.307198).
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