This article demonstrated the power of Twitter for world leaders to rapidly and directly communicate public health information about COVID-19 to citizens. By analyzing tweets from Group of Seven (G7) world leaders, researchers concluded that Twitter can be a powerful
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This research article reports that Google Trends data strongly correlates with COVID-19 cases and deaths. Previous outbreaks and epidemics have been tracked and forecasted by using infodemiology metrics and approaches, particularly through Twitter and Google. The data from this study
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This article discusses challenging resource allocation decisions in Italy in response to COVID-19 from the perspective of medical ethics. Italy has experienced the largest COVID-19 outbreak in Europe, with the country’s northern region particularly severely affected. Due to the limited
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This study of patients in Rome showed that chest CT sensitivity was high (97%) but specificity was lower (56%). CT may have a role to play in the diagnosis of COVID-19, and this study compared its potential to that of
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A discrete-time deterministic epidemic model is used to make predictions about the peak of the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy. Generally, transmission dynamics of infectious disease are described by modelling population movements which assume that the population mixes at random, or
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This study investigated the case fatality rate (CFR) among confirmed COVID-19 cases (N=22,512) in Italy, using Italian National Institute of Health surveillance data up to March 17, 2020. The overall fatality rate of persons with confirmed COVID-19 in the Italian
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At the outset of Italy’s COVID-19 outbreak, they launched a surveillance system to collect information on all people with COVID-19 in-country. There are concerns as to why the fatality rate (what percent of people who are infected die) is so
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