Official Data and Analytical Forecasts: Differences and Similarities Among Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Confirmed Cases and Deaths

Front Med (Lausanne). 2020 May 19:7:239. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2020.00239. eCollection 2020.

¹ Unit of Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
² Osservatorio Epidemiologico Veterinario Regionale della Sardegna, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna G. Pegreffi, Cagliari, Italy.

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Keywords: COVID-19; Italy; official data; pandemic; public health; risk management; standardize mortality rate.