Can Reasoned Mass Testing Impact on Covid-19 Hard Outcomes in Wide Community Contexts? An Evidence-based Opinion [post]

Antonio Cassone, Andrea Crisanti
2020 unpublished
We provide data of Covid-19 epidemic in two geographycally contiguous Italian regions, Lombardy and Veneto, which were the first and simultaneously hit by SARS-2-Cov in Italy but showed markedly different disease outcome in terms of case fatality rate, mortality and hospitalization.. We discuss similarities and differences in the regional context and conclude that Covid-19 better outcome in Veneto was due, at least in part, to the adoption of a strategy of active search of asymptomatic
more » ... V infections ( Reasoned Mass Testing;) instead of a strategy strictly based on detection of symptomatic cases.SARS.
doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-39944/v1 fatcat:svayps5h25al3bv2yg7pc57w4a