Table 2. Central stockpile size, as a percentage of total stockpile, as a function of wastage and region-to-region correlation in peak ventilator demand during an influenza pandemic, Texas, USA*.
| Wastage, % |
Central stockpile, % | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Region-to-region correlation = 0.55 |
Region-to-region correlation = 0.70 |
Region-to-region correlation = 0.85 |
|
| 40 | 2.8 | 1.5 | 0.2 |
| 30 | 4.7 | 2.9 | 0.9 |
| 20 | 7.0 | 4.4 | 2.0 |
| 10 | 9.8 | 6.7 | 3.5 |
| 1 | 18.0 | 13.5 | 10.1 |
| 0.5 | 25.4 | 20.6 | 17.0 |
| 0.3 | 32.8 | 27.4 | 22.7 |
| 0.2 | 48.2 | 43.9 | 39.3 |
| 0.1 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
*The results in this table are based on a mild pandemic scenario and a limit on expected unmet demand of 5 patients. Bold indicates the baseline value.