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authors: Saglietto, Andrea; D’Ascenzo, Fabrizio; Zoccai, Giuseppe Biondi; De Ferrari, Gaetano Maria
title: COVID-19 in Europe: the Italian lesson
date: 2020-03-24
journal: Lancet
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30690-5
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All other European countries appear to be in a similar situation, with just a short time-lag of a couple of weeks (figure). We urge all countries to acknowledge the Italian lesson and to immediately adopt very restrictive measures to limit viral diffusion, ensure appropriate health-system response, and reduce mortality, which Green dots are for countries with more than 2 weeks of lag time from Italy; orange is for countries with 1-2 weeks of lag time; and red is for countries with 1 week or less of lag time. The Italian data curve is cut at 8000 cases to convey easier interpretability of lag times. Source: Center for Systems Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University.

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