Big Data-driven personal protective equipment stockpiling framework under Universal Healthcare for Disease Control and Prevention in the COVID-19 Era

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¹ Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: sheng.kai.ma@cern.ch.
² Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: stsai22@jhu.edu.

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Kevin Sheng-Kai Ma et al. Int J Surg. 2020 Jul.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2020.05.091. Epub 2020 Jun 4.

¹ Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: sheng.kai.ma@cern.ch.
² Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: stsai22@jhu.edu.

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Keywords: Coronavirus pandemic; Epidemic prevention policies; Personal protective equipment; Universal healthcare systems.

Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of competing interest The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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