The goal of this website is to explain, in a comprehensible way, the evolution of the disease COVID-19 in Italy in the first wave of the pandemic (february to may 2020), focusing our attention on the causes that made our country one of the most affected by the pandemic, and how these causes influenced each other in the process, all of this by looking at 2019 data.
We are going to take into consideration many aspects of the virus that have probably been underestimated or ignored at first, in order to provide people a clear idea of what COVID-19 is and which countermeasures could be adopted to deal with it.
Virulence (that's the name of the project) aims to tell this story through a proper use of legal and ethical analysis, metadata exploitation and datasets cleaning, in order to provide a neat mashup of all the information sources gathered during the research steps. For convenience, the work has been split into 4 parts: