The Spread of COVID-19 in Six Western Metropolitan Regions: a False Myth on the Excess of Mortality in Lombardy and the Defense of the City of Milan

Overview

Journal Acta Biomed

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2020 May 19

PMID 32420920

Citations 36

Authors

Carlo Signorelli

Anna Odone

Vincenza Gianfredi

Eleonora Bossi

Daria Bucci

Aurea Oradini-Alacreu

Beatrice Frascella

Michele Capraro

Federica Chiappa

Lorenzo Blandi

Fabio Ciceri

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Abstract

We analyzed the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic in 6 metropolitan regions with similar demographic characteristics, daytime commuting population and business activities: the New York metropolitan area, the Île-de-France region, the Greater London county, Bruxelles-Capital, the Community of Madrid and the Lombardy region. The highest mortality rates 30-days after the onset of the epidemic were recorded in New York (81.2 x 100,000) and Madrid (77.1 x 100,000). Lombardy mortality rate is below average (41.4 per 100,000), and it is the only situation in which the capital of the region (Milan) has not been heavily impacted by the epidemic wave. Our study analyzed the role played by containment measures and the positive contribution offered by the hospital care system. (www.actabiomedica.it).

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