Sequential decision-making requires one to know, or at least anticipate with confidence, the future consequences of the decisions that will be made today.
In this post, I argue for a new minimum transparency criterion for developing successful analytics science methods and algorithms that are aimed at having a positive public impact: making sure that they do...
Soroush_SaghafA major mistake by the #government officials who are showing a lack of understanding of cost-benefit analysis. 6 out of 7 million is extremely rare; the cost of not getting people #vaccinated now and in the future (e.g., #COVID19 deaths) is much higher.
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Soroush_SaghafA massive change of strategy: vaccines in MA are suddenly diverted from hospitals to state-run vaccination clinics. When there is no advance planning/study of how to effectively distribute, states end up changing their plans as they go. t.co/CCYq86qEpO via @commonhealth
Soroush_SaghafUnacceptable racial #disparities in #vaccination. #Data: White residents are being vaccinated at more than twice the rate of Black residents. The rate is not much better for Latinos. "Disadvantaged and underserved communities are being bypassed" @politicot.co/bw0WiHnLSf
Soroush_SaghafGreat news a/b the J&J #vaccine@Harvard Gazette"[it] now has proven efficacy against not just the virus that has been circulating, but also the new variants that are partially resistant and are already present in the US and are dominant viruses elsewhere" t.co/5aEV8ziYBb
Soroush_SaghafGreat piece by @STayur on unconventional computing : "Cloud quantum (and Ising) computing is already here, through Amazon Braket, D-Wave and IBM. The future will be a hybrid between classical and unconventional computing." Picture: D-Wave 2000Q @INFORMSt.co/PIvpOyOMsmt.co/TLY2qBQ87b
Soroush_SaghafGreat article. But the issue in #modeling this problem is not the constraints (cold chain, fairness, inventory); issue: the objective function is not known. If saving lives, what is the impact of each allocation scheme? Need: better data & epi studies. t.co/XzXNnpUBuM