#89: How An Italian Town Conquered Coronavirus – Andrea Crisanti
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Andrea Crisanti is a Professor of Microbiology at the University of Padua. He is part of the research team that eradicated coronavirus in Vo, a town in northern Italy.
Show notes
Selected links
- Follow Andrea: Website
- Johns Hopkins University’s coronavirus dashboard
- Data on testing by country
- Marc Lipsitch’s 18 March STAT article
Topics discussed
- The Italian crisis. 8:22
- Why has Lombardy become an epicentre of coronavirus? 9:50
- How does the situation in Veneto compare to that in Lombardy? 11:06
- How did Andrea become involved in the Vo experiment? 11:51
- What is the process for identifying infection people in Veneto? 17:20
- What is the R0 for asymptomatic people? 20:25
- What is the strategy employed at Vo? 24:32
- Is there still time for Australia and the US to implement the strategy used at Vo? 25:21
- Does the Vo strategy need to be implemented in full in order to be successful? 28:05
- Why have some Asian countries been better at controlling the virus than Western countries? 28:47
- Is the Vo strategy scalable? 29:43
- How should we think about the prospects of future waves of the virus? 30:34