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. 2020 Jun 13;22(6):1359–1370. doi: 10.1007/s10098-020-01876-1
Sets
M Set of severity levels
N Set of population age-group
O Set of regions
P Set of available hospital resources
W Set of available antiviral types
Indices
i Index for severity level
j Index for population group
k Index for region
r Index for resource type
v Index for antiviral type
Parameters
αi Case fatality rate of individuals in severity level i who did not get needed resource
βi Case fatality rate of individuals in severity level i who received proper resources
CAPv Total number of antiviral type v available
Ai,j,v Probability that group j will be in severity level i for antiviral given
Di,r Amount of hospital resource r needed by individual in severity level i
Sr,k Total available resource r in region k
Xj,kT Total number of infected symptomatic individuals in population group j in region k
Variables
ur,k Actual number of resource type r used in region k
xj,k,vA Number of individuals in population group j in region k that were given antiviral v
yi,k,vA Number of individuals in severity level i in region k after they were given antiviral v
yi,kN Number of individuals in severity level i, in region k who did not receive required hospital resources
yi,kP Number of individuals in severity level i in region k who received required hospital resources
yi,kT Total number of individuals in severity level i in region k
ztk Total number of deaths in region k among those who had access to hospital resources
zuk Total number of deaths in region k among those who did not have access to required hospital resources