Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce Supply of COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibody.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Equitable allocation of scarce medications is an important health policy goal. There are few data about attempts to achieve equitable allocation in the community setting.

Objective

To describe the development and use of a weighted lottery to allocate a scarce supply of tixagevimab with cilgavimab as preexposure prophylaxis to COVID-19 for immunocompromised individuals and examine whether this promoted equitable allocation to disadvantaged populations.

Design, setting, and participants

This quality improvement study analyzed a weighted lottery process from December 8, 2021, to February 23, 2022, that assigned twice the odds of drug allocation of 450 tixagevimab with cilgavimab doses to individuals residing in highly disadvantaged neighborhoods according to t

SUBMITTER: McCreary EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10474557 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature