Bonifazi Gianluca, Lista Luca, Menasce Dario, Mezzetto Mauro, Pedrini Daniele, Spighi Roberto, Zoccoli Antonio
Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy.
INFN Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Eur Phys J Plus. 2021;136(5):481. doi: 10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-01448-2. Epub 2021 May 3.
In a recent work, we introduced a novel method to compute the effective reproduction number and we applied it to describe the development of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. The study is based on the number of daily positive swabs as reported by the Italian Dipartimento di Protezione Civile. Recently, the Italian Istituto Superiore di Sanità made available the data relative of the symptomatic cases, where the reporting date is the date of beginning of symptoms instead of the date of the reporting of the positive swab. In this paper, we will discuss merits and drawbacks of this data, quantitatively comparing the quality of the pandemic indicators computed with the two samples.
在最近的一项工作中,我们引入了一种计算有效繁殖数的新方法,并将其应用于描述意大利新冠疫情的发展情况。该研究基于意大利民防部报告的每日阳性拭子数量。最近,意大利高等卫生研究院提供了有症状病例的相关数据,其中报告日期是症状开始日期而非阳性拭子报告日期。在本文中,我们将讨论这些数据的优缺点,定量比较用这两个样本计算出的疫情指标的质量。