How An Italian Town Conquered Coronavirus - Andrea Crisanti
The Joe Walker Podcast
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Veneto: A New Approach to Detecting Symptoms
In Italy, usually if somebody thinks they have symptoms, they call this health offline. If they believe that the patient is in good health, they tell the patient to stay at home. Now, we are changing approach in Veneto. We look for increased complexity of network of interactions. First, we test the family, then we test the friends, and then we test in adulthood. This is the approach because if we assume that these people have respect the quarantiness is the case in Italy, then the infection must have been transmitted within this three circle of network. Of course, in Lombardy, probably too late to do that. The only option now is a total lockdown and still situation
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