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cord-025886-259357pg	Mehrotra, Sanjay	A model of supply‐chain decisions for resource sharing with an application to ventilator allocation to combat COVID‐19	2020-05-02		.txt	text/plain	6800	382	58	Going forward, the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic will require centralized decision-making around how to equitably allocate, and reallocate, limited supplies of ventilators to states in need. Importantly, computational results from the model also provide estimates of the shortfall of ventilators in each state under different future demand scenarios. Section 4 presents our computational results under different mechanical ventilator demand scenarios for the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. In this section, we present a multiperiod planning model to allocate ventilators to different regions, based on their needs, for the treatment of critical patients. The results in Table 4 indicate that in Cases VI (severe) and V (extreme), the State of New York requires between 11 100 and 17 500 additional ventilators for COVID-19 patients during its peak demand. Overall, the model developed in this paper can be used as a planning tool/framework by state and federal agencies in acquiring and allocating ventilators to meet national demand.	./cache/cord-025886-259357pg.txt	./txt/cord-025886-259357pg.txt