{"641796":{"#nid":"641796","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Coronavirus Vaccine Approval Will Launch Unprecedented Public Health Initiative","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen the FDA approves one or more Covid-19 vaccines for emergency use -- which could happen by mid-December -- this will launch the largest public health and logistics initiative in U.S. history.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHundreds of millions of vaccine doses will\u0026nbsp;be\u0026nbsp;shipped and distributed, and they will have to be kept very cold. In addition, people will need to be conscientious about getting both shots of the vaccine for strongest immunity, and vaccine skeptics will have to be convinced that the medicines are both safe and effective.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rh.gatech.edu\/news\/641702\/coronavirus-vaccine-approval-will-launch-unprecedented-public-health-initiative\u0022\u003Enew article\u003C\/a\u003E from Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s \u003Cem\u003EResearch Horizons\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/pinar-keskinocak\u0022\u003EPinar Keskinocak,\u003C\/a\u003E William W. George Chair in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chhs.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECenter for Health and Humanitarian Systems\u003C\/a\u003E, provides insight into the enormous challenges presented by this mammoth vaccine distribution.\u0026nbsp;Even though distributing and administering vaccines is something the U.S. healthcare system does routinely, the size and timeline of this project are unprecedented, she noted.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKeskinocak is cautiously optimistic that the challenges will ultimately be addressed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There are certainly still lots of unknowns,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;But the state plans I have seen look reasonable from a supply chain standpoint. Some of the decisions will be made once the states receive the vaccine, and exactly how they do it will be somewhat up to the local jurisdictions. There are still many things that need to be decided to make this unprecedented initiative live up to its goals.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYou can read the entire article on the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EResearch Horizons\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;website \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/b.gatech.edu\/2JGJ3Ln\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen the FDA approves one or more Covid-19 vaccines for emergency use -- likely by mid-December -- this will launch a public health and logistics initiative unlike any in U.S. history.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"When the FDA approves one or more Covid-19 vaccines for emergency use -- likely by mid-December -- this will launch a public health and logistics initiative unlike any in U.S. history."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2020-12-02 19:55:36","changed_gmt":"2020-12-08 14:25:57","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-12-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-12-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"641790":{"id":"641790","type":"image","title":"When the FDA approves one or more Covid-19 vaccines for emergency use -- likely by mid-December -- this will launch a public health and logistics initiative unlike any in U.S. history.","body":null,"created":"1606937818","gmt_created":"2020-12-02 19:36:58","changed":"1606937818","gmt_changed":"2020-12-02 19:36:58","alt":"When the FDA approves one or more Covid-19 vaccines for emergency use -- likely by mid-December -- this will launch a public health and logistics initiative unlike any in U.S. history.","file":{"fid":"243853","name":"Vaccine Pic.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Vaccine%20Pic.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Vaccine%20Pic.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":48835,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Vaccine%20Pic.jpg?itok=oNM2LQv0"}},"634475":{"id":"634475","type":"image","title":"Pinar Keskinocak","body":null,"created":"1587133564","gmt_created":"2020-04-17 14:26:04","changed":"1587133594","gmt_changed":"2020-04-17 14:26:34","alt":"","file":{"fid":"241449","name":"Pinar-Square-web.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Pinar-Square-web.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Pinar-Square-web.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":399616,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Pinar-Square-web.jpg?itok=Zqw-jqld"}}},"media_ids":["641790","634475"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"},{"id":"1250","name":"Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1239","name":"Pinar Keskinocak"},{"id":"1614","name":"bill george"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"168677","name":"chhs"},{"id":"9153","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"184289","name":"covid-19"},{"id":"763","name":"vaccine"},{"id":"167074","name":"Supply Chain"},{"id":"233","name":"Logistics"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:john.toon@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EResearch Horizons\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}