Use of ICT to support epidemiological surveillance on a community of university students during SARS-CoV-2 phase 3 pandemic
- Autori: De Paola A.; Tinnirello I.; Restivo V.; Lacca G.; Amodio E.; Costantino C.; Alba D.; Casuccio A.; Lo Re G.; Mazzucco W.
- Anno di pubblicazione: 2021
- Tipologia: Contributo in atti di convegno pubblicato in volume
- OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/542459
Abstract
Populations documenting to date low incidence rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection are immunologically susceptible and at high exposure risk of new COVID-19 outbreaks during phase 3 of the pandemic. Following the experience documented by other countries with regard to the use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) to counteract the current pandemic, Italy has implemented a contact tracing system based on a mobile application. In this work, we describe the proposal of a complementary ICT-based prototypal model of COVID-19 prevention and surveillance system, involving the university students as sentinels acting both in the academic community and the general population.