Only a vaccine will save America from the COVID -19 pandemic. At least that’s the opinion of nearly all public health officials.
Obviously, vaccine manufacturers are critical to any vaccine campaign. But there’s another group that plays a less obvious but still crucial role in making sure vaccines do what they’re intended: mathematicians.
Even if the Biden administration releases all available doses of the two authorized COVID-19 vaccines, for a while at least, supplies will remain limited. How best to use that limited supply is a question mathematicians can help answer.
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