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

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

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