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Controlling epidemics through optimal allocation of test kits and vaccine doses across networks
Mingtao Xia, Lucas Böttcher, Tom Chou
Efficient testing and vaccination protocols are critical aspects of epidemic management. To study the optimal allocation of limited testing and vaccination resources in a heterogen…
Incentivizing Narrow-Spectrum Antibiotic Development with Refunding
Lucas Böttcher, Hans Gersbach
The rapid rise of antibiotic resistance is a serious threat to global public health. Without further incentives, pharmaceutical companies have little interest in developing antibio…
Why case fatality ratios can be misleading: individual- and population-based mortality estimates and factors influencing them
Lucas Böttcher, Mingtao Xia, Tom Chou
Different ways of calculating mortality ratios during epidemics have yielded very different results, particularly during the current COVID-19 pandemic. We formulate both a survival…
Diversity in Biology: definitions, quantification, and models
Song Xu, Lucas Böttcher, Tom Chou
Diversity indices are useful single-number metrics for characterizing a complex distribution of a set of attributes across a population of interest. The utility of these different…