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SUBMITTER: Scala A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7426873 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scala Antonio A Flori Andrea A Spelta Alessandro A Brugnoli Emanuele E Cinelli Matteo M Quattrociocchi Walter W Pammolli Fabio F
Scientific reports 20200813 1
We develop a minimalist compartmental model to study the impact of mobility restrictions in Italy during the Covid-19 outbreak. We show that, while an early lockdown shifts the contagion in time, beyond a critical value of lockdown strength the epidemic tends to restart after lifting the restrictions. We characterize the relative importance of different lockdown lifting schemes by accounting for two fundamental sources of heterogeneity, i.e. geography and demography. First, we consider Italian R ...[more]