1 Introduction
The challenge of the local and global supply chain to respond to potential catastrophes is very high, as shown by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Supply Chain Resilience Guide.[1] Responses to natural disasters, such as hurricanes, have shown that even with historical analyses that prefigure response strategies, there remain a lack of readiness, awareness, and organization between governmental relief and private‐sector supply networks in solving logistical bottlenecks, surges, and restoration.[2] The lack of preparedness is even greater when facing a pandemic, such as that of COVID‐19, as unprecedented catastrophe development means that we rely only on a small subset of data from past events whose scale is not comparable to the current event, such as past epidemics like SARS and MERS, to come up with ideal solutions. To meet supply…
