Policy lessons from the Italian pandemic of Covid-19
| Published |
| September 4, 2024 |
| Title |
| Policy lessons from the Italian pandemic of Covid-19 |
| Authors |
| José M. Carcione, Jing Ba |
| DOI |
| 10.62684/NZFA6144 |
| Keywords |
| Policy lessons; Italian pandemic; COVID-19. |
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José M. Carcione(a), Jing Ba(b)(c)
(a) National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics – OGS, Trieste, Italy.
(b) School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
(c) 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.
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Conflict of Interest
The Authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.
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