Introduction: The current COVID-19 pandemic leads to a massive influx of patients to the ICU. Epidemic models focus on the demand for care capacity. Here, we present a model for the number of COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients that can be served for a given ICU capacity. The results may give...

We explore the procurement of influenza vaccines by a government whose objective is to minimize the expected social costs (including vaccine, vaccine administration, and influenza treatment costs) when a for-profit vaccine supplier has production yield uncertainty, private information about its...