On the misuse of the reproduction number in the COVID-19 surveillance system in Italy

J Med Virol. 2021 May;93(5):2569-2570. doi: 10.1002/jmv.26881. Epub 2021 Feb 19.

Authors

Antonello Maruotti^{1

2}, Massimo Ciccozzi³, Fabio Divino⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department GEPLI, Libera Università Maria SS Assunta, Rome, Italy.
² Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
³ Unit of Clinical Pathology and Microbiology, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Rome, Italy.
⁴ Laboratory of Biostatistics and Computational Epidemiology, Department of Biosciences, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy.

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MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Epidemics*
Humans
Italy / epidemiology
Reproduction
SARS-CoV-2
Software

Grants and funding

G0800596/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom