Table 5.

Ventilator planning parameters (Porpora, 2020; Rowland, 2020; Patel, 2020).

Parameter	Value
Participating states	New York, Florida, California
Cost of possession per unit per day (cj)	1
Initial stockpile cost per unit (c0)	25,120
Daily production rate (a)	10 units
Shortage/surplus cost (${\theta }_j^{+}$/${\theta }_j^{-}$) in Fig. 8a	1,000/1,000
Shortage/surplus cost (${\theta }_j^{+}$/${\theta }_j^{-}$) in Fig. 8b	1,000/20
Time-varying weight (ωj)	Proportional to daily demand Xj