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cord-267034-s3hf4bo5	Palladino, Raffaele	Excess Deaths and Hospital Admissions for COVID-19 Due to a Late Implementation of the Lockdown in Italy	2020-08-05		.txt	text/plain	2428	120	53	Second, we evaluated the effect of an early lockdown on the trend of new cases, creating a counterfactual scenario where the intervention was implemented one week in advance. For this reason, we estimated the number of deaths and hospital admissions for COVID-19 that would have occurred if the lockdown had been implemented one week earlier than it was actually enforced. In the present analysis we used data on the daily number of COVID-19 cases, hospitalized patients, and deaths recorded in Italy from February 24th, the first day national data were made available, to May 3rd, the last day of implementation of the national lockdown. The late implementation of the lockdown in Italy was responsible for a substantial proportion of hospital admissions and deaths associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The late implementation of the lockdown in Italy was responsible for a substantial proportion of hospital admissions and deaths associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.	./cache/cord-267034-s3hf4bo5.txt	./txt/cord-267034-s3hf4bo5.txt