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The coronavirus spread: the Italian case
A model based on population growth, chaotic maps, and turbulent flows is applied to the spread of Coronavirus for each Italian region in order to obtain useful information and help to contrast it. We divide the regions into different risk categories and discuss anomalies. The worst cases are confine...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7266123/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32509495 http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-020-00494-6 |
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author | Bonasera, Aldo Bonasera, G. Zhang, Suyalatu |
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description | A model based on population growth, chaotic maps, and turbulent flows is applied to the spread of Coronavirus for each Italian region in order to obtain useful information and help to contrast it. We divide the regions into different risk categories and discuss anomalies. The worst cases are confined between the Appenine and the Alps mountain ranges but the situation seem to improve closer to the sea. The Veneto region gave the most efficient response so far and some of their resources could be diverted to other regions, in particular, more tests to the Lombardia, Liguria, Piemonte, Marche and V. Aosta regions, which seem to be worst affected. We noticed worrying anomalies in the Lazio, Campania and Sicilia regions to be monitored. We stress that the number of fatalities we predicted on March 12 has been confirmed daily by the bulletins. This suggests a change of strategy in order to reduce such number maybe moving the weaker population (and negative to the virus test) to beach resorts, which should be empty presently. The ratio deceased/positives on April 4, 2020 is 5.4% worldwide, 12.3% in Italy, 1.4% in Germany, 2.7% in the USA, 10.3% in the UK and 4.1% in China. These large fluctuations should be investigated starting from the Italian regions, which show similar large fluctuations. |
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spelling | pubmed-72661232020-06-02 The coronavirus spread: the Italian case Bonasera, Aldo Bonasera, G. Zhang, Suyalatu Eur Phys J Plus Regular Article A model based on population growth, chaotic maps, and turbulent flows is applied to the spread of Coronavirus for each Italian region in order to obtain useful information and help to contrast it. We divide the regions into different risk categories and discuss anomalies. The worst cases are confined between the Appenine and the Alps mountain ranges but the situation seem to improve closer to the sea. The Veneto region gave the most efficient response so far and some of their resources could be diverted to other regions, in particular, more tests to the Lombardia, Liguria, Piemonte, Marche and V. Aosta regions, which seem to be worst affected. We noticed worrying anomalies in the Lazio, Campania and Sicilia regions to be monitored. We stress that the number of fatalities we predicted on March 12 has been confirmed daily by the bulletins. This suggests a change of strategy in order to reduce such number maybe moving the weaker population (and negative to the virus test) to beach resorts, which should be empty presently. The ratio deceased/positives on April 4, 2020 is 5.4% worldwide, 12.3% in Italy, 1.4% in Germany, 2.7% in the USA, 10.3% in the UK and 4.1% in China. These large fluctuations should be investigated starting from the Italian regions, which show similar large fluctuations. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-06-01 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7266123/ /pubmed/32509495 http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-020-00494-6 Text en © Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Regular Article Bonasera, Aldo Bonasera, G. Zhang, Suyalatu The coronavirus spread: the Italian case |
title | The coronavirus spread: the Italian case |
title_full | The coronavirus spread: the Italian case |
title_fullStr | The coronavirus spread: the Italian case |
title_full_unstemmed | The coronavirus spread: the Italian case |
title_short | The coronavirus spread: the Italian case |
title_sort | coronavirus spread: the italian case |
topic | Regular Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7266123/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32509495 http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-020-00494-6 |
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