Used sources

Worldwide

For the main analysis, we used the data made available from the Johns Hopkins CCSE.

Italy

Data for italy are available on a daily basis from official sources and can be downloaded from the corresponding repository

Germany

• Data for the city of Berlin are periodically reported from the Landesamt für Gesundheit und Soziales of the Berlin Council.

• Data related to the intensive care capacity have been downloaded from the Intensivregister

Literature & Co.

• The reproduction number R0 has been estimated following this article.