Short-Term Effects of Mitigation Measures for the Containment of the COVID-19 Outbreak: An Experience From Northern Italy

Giovenale Moirano; Maurizio Schmid; Francesco Barone-Adesi

doi:10.1017/dmp.2020.119

Short-Term Effects of Mitigation Measures for the Containment of the COVID-19 Outbreak: An Experience From Northern Italy

Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2020 Aug;14(4):e3-e4. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2020.119. Epub 2020 Apr 24.

Authors

Giovenale Moirano¹, Maurizio Schmid², Francesco Barone-Adesi^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
² BioLab - Engineering Department - Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy.
³ Department of Translational Medicine, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy.
⁴ CRIMEDIM - Research Center in Emergency and Disaster Medicine, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy.

Abstract

We evaluated the short-term effects of mitigation measures imposed by the Italian government on the first 10 municipalities affected by Sars-Cov-2 spread. Our results suggest that the effects of containment measures can be appreciated in about approximately 2 wk.

Keywords: epidemics; epidemiologic methods; population surveillance.

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / diagnosis*
COVID-19 / epidemiology
Humans
Italy / epidemiology
Pandemics / prevention & control*
Pandemics / statistics & numerical data
Quarantine / methods
Quarantine / standards
Quarantine / statistics & numerical data
Risk Management / methods
Risk Management / standards*
Risk Management / statistics & numerical data
Time Factors