Distribution of Vaccines During a Pandemic (Covid-19)

Dhanapal, V.; Sarin, S. C.

Covid-19 has affected the lives of people in different ways. A number of models are available in the literature to study the dynamics of a pandemic. However, there are very few models that study the impact of vaccine distribution among different population groups. In this paper, we use a modified epidemiological model which incorporates relationships between different populations to incorporate the impact of vaccine distribution and present results for different vaccine distribution strategies. We have presented how a sharing-based vaccine distribution strategy could be implemented in the face of the spread of the virus. The main finding of our work is that an effective vaccine distribution may differ depending upon the level of interactions among different population groups and a sharing-based vaccine distribution strategy is the most effective strategy. © 2021, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.