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Sub-National Allocation of COVID-19 Tests: An Efficiency Criterion with an Application to Italian Regions

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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.

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  • Christelle Baunez & Mickael Degoulet & Stéphane Luchini & Patrick A. Pintus, 2020. "Sub-National Allocation of COVID-19 Tests: An Efficiency Criterion with an Application to Italian Regions," AMSE Working Papers 2011, Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France.
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    1. Christian Gollier & Olivier Gossner, 2020. "Group testing against Covid-19," Post-Print hal-02550740, HAL.
    2. Stéphane Luchini & Miriam Teschl & Patrick A. Pintus & Mickael Degoulet, 2020. "Urgently Needed for Policy Guidance: An Operational Tool for Monitoring the COVID-19 Pandemic," AMSE Working Papers 2009, Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France.
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    1. Christelle Baunez & Mickael Degoulet & Stéphane Luchini & Matteo L. Pintus, 2020. "The Acceleration Index as a Test-Controlled Reproduction Number: Application to COVID-19 in France," AMSE Working Papers 2045, Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France.
    2. Christelle Baunez & Mickael Degoulet & Stéphane Luchini & Patrick A Pintus & Miriam Teschl, 2021. "Tracking the dynamics and allocating tests for COVID-19 in real-time: An acceleration index with an application to French age groups and départements," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(6), pages 1-21, June.
    3. Christelle Baunez & Michaël Degoulet & Stéphane Luchini & Matteo L. Pintus, 2022. "Correcting the Reproduction Number for Time-Varying Tests: a Proposal and an Application to COVID-19 in France," AMSE Working Papers 2210, Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France, revised Jan 2023.

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    COVID-19; epidemic dynamics; acceleration of harm; deceleration of harm; real-time analysis; sub-national allocation of tests; efficiency criterion; Italy;
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    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • H12 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Crisis Management

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