The impact of early large-scale screening on the evolution of pandemics

M Shams Eddin, H El-Amine, H Aprahamian - IISE Transactions, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We study the problem of large-scale screening in the early stages of a pandemic. In this
setting, resources such as testing kits, budget, and hospital beds are scarce, and testing in …

To test or not to test? A new behavioral epidemiology framework for COVID-19

J Sarkar - PloS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Evidence from clinical research suggests that in the first two waves of COVID-19, the virus
spread rapidly through a large number of undocumented asymptomatic infections. These …

Optimization of Stochastic Models in Health Care: Appointment Scheduling and Disease Testing

ND Lipscomb - 2023 - search.proquest.com
We consider two different problems: appointment scheduling and asymptomatic disease
testing. For the appointment scheduling problem, the goal is to assign appointment times to …