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- Title
A Web-Based Application to Monitor and Inform about the COVID-19 Outbreak in Italy: The {COVID-19ita} Initiative.
- Authors
Lanera, Corrado; Azzolina, Danila; Pirotti, Francesco; Prosepe, Ilaria; Lorenzoni, Giulia; Berchialla, Paola; Gregori, Dario
- Abstract
The pandemic outbreak of COVID-19 has posed several questions about public health emergency risk communication. Due to the effort required for the population to adopt appropriate behaviors in response to the emergency, it is essential to inform the public of the epidemic situation with transparent data sources. The COVID-19ita project aimed to develop a public open-source tool to provide timely, updated information on the pandemic's evolution in Italy. It is a web-based application, the front end for the eponymously named R package freely available on GitHub, deployed both in English and Italian. The web application pulls the data from the official repository of the Italian COVID-19 outbreak at the national, regional, and provincial levels. The app allows the user to select information to visualize data in an interactive environment and compare epidemic situations over time and across different Italian regions. At the same time, it provides insights about the outbreak that are explained and commented upon to yield reasoned, focused, timely, and updated information about the outbreak evolution.
- Subjects
ITALY; COVID-19 pandemic; MOBILE apps; HEALTH risk communication
- Publication
Healthcare (2227-9032), 2022, Vol 10, Issue 3, p473
- ISSN
2227-9032
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/healthcare10030473