Sub-National Allocation of COVID-19 Tests: An Efficiency Criterion with an Application to Italian Regions
Sub-National Allocation of COVID-19 Tests: An Efficiency Criterion with an Application to Italian Regions
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COVID-19 检测的次国家分配：适用于意大利地区的效率标准
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2020
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M. Teschl
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C. Baunez;M. Degoulet;S. Luchini;P. Pintus;M. Teschl
检测对于了解COVID-19患病人数以及实时了解疫情动态是加速还是减速至关重要。但在许多国家，测试是一种稀缺资源。因此，关键但仍然悬而未决的问题是如何在国家以下各级分配考试。我们提供了一个数据驱动的操作标准，以便在各地区或省份之间有效地分配检测，以最大限度地检测感染者。我们将我们的标准应用于意大利地区，并计算每个地区的测试份额，这与实际分布有很大不同。
Tests are crucial to know about the number of people who have fallen ill with COVID-19 and to understand in real-time whether the dynamics of the pandemic is accelerating or decelerating. But tests are a scarce resource in many countries. The key but still open question is thus how to allocate tests across sub-national levels. We provide a data-driven and operational criterion to allocate tests efficiently across regions or provinces, with the view to maximize detection of people who have been infected. We apply our criterion to Italian regions and compute the shares of tests that should go to each region, which are shown to differ significantly from the actual distribution.