Opinion: Don’t repeat the mistakes of past vaccine distribution efforts
When it comes to planning how Covid-19 vaccines will be delivered to the people who need them, I hope hindsight will be used to learn from the past and the U.S. and other countries won’t repeat the many problems with vaccine supply chains encountered in the past.
The Public Health Informatics, Computational, Operations Research (PHICOR) team I lead has worked on vaccine delivery and vaccine supply chains around the world for nearly 15 years. A vaccine supply chain is the complex system of manufacturing transportation, equipment, personnel, locations, and processes involved in getting vaccines from where they are made to the people who will receive them.
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