ABSTRACT
Slide from Stanford depicting the contributing factors of the Vaccination Sequence Score used to prioritize staff for the COVID-19 vaccine. The weights are from employee-based variables such as age with greater weight given to over 65 and under 25. The algorithm counts the prevalence of COVID-19 among employees' job roles and department in two different ways, but the difference between them is not entirely clear. Stanford tried to factor in a lot more variables than other medical facilities, but Jeffrey Kahn, the director of the Johns Hopkins Berkman Institute of Bioethics, says the approach was overcomplicated. Algorithms are commonly used in health care to rank patients by risk level in an effort to distribute care and resources more equitably.
