The cost of waiting and the death toll in Italy during the first wave of the covid-19 pandemic()

This paper documents how a prompter implementation of stricter policy measures in Italy would have reduced by about one-fourth of total COVID-19-related deaths during the first wave of the pandemic. The empirical evidence suggests that rigid but timely restrictions would have been a more effective p...

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Autores principales: Girardi, Alessandro, Ventura, Marco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10266887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37343450
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2023.104859
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spelling pubmed-102668872023-06-15 The cost of waiting and the death toll in Italy during the first wave of the covid-19 pandemic() Girardi, Alessandro Ventura, Marco Health Policy Article This paper documents how a prompter implementation of stricter policy measures in Italy would have reduced by about one-fourth of total COVID-19-related deaths during the first wave of the pandemic. The empirical evidence suggests that rigid but timely restrictions would have been a more effective policy tool than implementing progressively stricter measures over an extended period. Elsevier B.V. 2023-08 2023-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10266887/ /pubmed/37343450 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2023.104859 Text en © 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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