Forecasting the CoViD19 Diffusion in Italy and the Related Occupancy of Intensive Care Units

Livio Fenga

This paper employs the data related to COVID-19, collected and regularly updated by the Italian National Institute of Health (an agency of the Italian Ministry of Health) and by the Italian Civil Protection Department. The whole data set is freely and publicly available in a comprehensive database, accessible on the Internet at the web address https://www.iss.it/. It collects crucial data related to all the persons tested for COVID-19 -from the outbreak of the pandemics (February the 24 th ) -and, in particular, it 1. is a collection of 21 data points -representing 19 Italian Regions plus the two autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano -for each day of infections;