COVID-19 and School Activities in Italy

Giovanni Sebastiani; Giorgio Palù

doi:10.3390/v12111339

COVID-19 and School Activities in Italy

Viruses. 2020 Nov 23;12(11):1339. doi: 10.3390/v12111339.

Authors

Giovanni Sebastiani^{1

2

3}, Giorgio Palù⁴

Affiliations

¹ Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone", Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 00185 Rome, Italy.
² Dipartimento di Matematica "Guido Castelnuovo", Sapienza University, 00185 Rome, Italy.
³ Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UIT The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway.
⁴ Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padua, 35121 Padua, Italy.

Abstract

After a linear growth during September, the diffusion in Italy of SARS-CoV-2, responsible for COVID-19, has been growing exponentially since the end of that month with a doubling time approximately equal to one week [...].

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / diagnosis
COVID-19 / epidemiology*
COVID-19 / transmission*
Human Activities*
Humans
Incidence
Italy / epidemiology
Pandemics
Public Health / statistics & numerical data
SARS-CoV-2
Schools / statistics & numerical data*
Students / statistics & numerical data*