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cord-305183-6ixjbbek	Mehrotra, S.	A Model for Supply-Chain Decisions for Resource Sharing with an Application to Ventilator Allocation to Combat COVID-19	2020-04-06		.txt	text/plain	4914	284	57	This paper presents a stochastic optimization model for allocating and sharing a critical resource in the case of a pandemic. The model is applied to study the allocation of ventilator inventory in the COVID-19 pandemic by the Federal Emergency Management Agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (FEMA) to different states in the US. Importantly, computational results from the model also provide estimates of ventilators' shortfall 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 situation in the US. In this section, we present a multi-period planning model to allocate ventilators to different regions based on their needs to treat the patients at the critical level. More precisely, we considered four different cases to generate random samples for the number of ventilators that is needed to care for COVID-19 patients.	./cache/cord-305183-6ixjbbek.txt	./txt/cord-305183-6ixjbbek.txt