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|description=We analyze the management of the Italian pandemic during the five identified waves.
|keywords=policy lessons; Italian pandemic; COVID-19.
|citation_author=Carcione, José M.; Ba, Jing
|citation_journal_title=Top Italian Scientists Journal 
|citation_publication_date=2024/09/04 
|citation_title=Policy lessons from the Italian pandemic of Covid-19
|citation_keywords=policy lessons; Italian pandemic; COVID-19.
|citation_publisher=Top Italian Scientists
|citation_volume=1
|citation_issue=4
|citation_doi=10.62684/NZFA6144
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| September 4, 2024
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| style="width:200px;" | Policy lessons from the Italian pandemic of Covid-19
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|   José M. Carcione, Jing Ba
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| [https://doi.org/10.62684/NZFA6144 10.62684/NZFA6144]
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| Policy lessons; Italian pandemic; COVID-19.
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'''[https://www.topitalianscientists.org/tis/3743/Jos%C3%A9_Carcione_-_Top_Italian_Scientist_in_Natural_&_Environmental_Sciences José M. Carcione]'''<sup>(a)</sup>, Jing Ba<sup>(b)(c)</sup>

<sup>(a)</sup> National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics – OGS, Trieste, Italy.

<sup>(b)</sup> School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China

<sup>(c)</sup> Corresponding author. jba@hhu.edu.cn

==Abstract==
We analyze the management of the Italian pandemic during the five identified waves. We considered the following problems: (i) The composition of the CTS ("Scientific Technical Committee"), which was composed entirely of doctors, mainly virologists, without mathematical epidemiologists, statisticians, physicists, etc. In fact, a pandemic has a behavior described by mathematical, stochastic and probabilistic criteria; (ii) Political interference in security measures and media propaganda; (iii) The initial stages of the vaccination campaign, ignoring the age factor, and (iv) The persistence of the pandemic due to the population unvaccinated (anti-vax or "no-vax"), which amounted to about six to seven million people, including 10% of anti-vax doctors.

==Declarations==
=== Conflict of Interest ===
The Authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

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