High-performance computing based COVID-19 response

We are requesting continued access to PSC to continue the work we are doing. During this round, we will continue the CDC COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub work. Round 7 will be done in Early July and after that we expect a round every two to four weeks. This is a significant effort. Our model is the only national scale agent based model to participate in this work and in this sense unique. The scenarios will be decided in the coming weeks but will surely focus on vaccine hesitancy, strain analysis, immunity escape and waning, and effect of the delta strain, and fall reopening. Secondly we will extend our existing Vaccine allocation study to account for uncertainty of the disease parameters, NPI compliances, hesitancy levels and inclusion of smaller age groups. We will continue to support the weekly response efforts for the DOD as needed. Additionally, we may pursue a new study on global vaccine allocation. We are working towards a global synthetic population model. If successful, we will focus on Low, & middle income countries (LMICs) and study how vaccine allocation can possibly reduce the burden in these countries.