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Italiy DATA source sospicious #1885

Closed udedomenico closed 3 years ago

udedomenico commented 3 years ago

Not sure where that data comes from although it is claimed the source to be the Extraordinary commissioner for the Covid-19 emergency, numbers do not match with the official data available here: https://www.governo.it/it/cscovid19/report-vaccini/

https://github.com/italia/covid19-opendata-vaccini

edomt commented 3 years ago

Hi @udedomenico

I'm not sure what you mean by "suspicious": we indeed rely on the files published on GitHub. You can check our entire code for Italy in italy.py.

Note that in our data, fully-vaccinated people are those who have received all doses prescribed by their vaccination regimen (e.g. 2 doses for Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, Oxford/AstraZeneca, etc. and 1 dose for J&J, CanSino, etc.). This allows for an optimal comparability between countries. Some countries have alternative definitions, such as having been infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the past and receiving 1 dose of a 2-dose regimen. We currently ignore these to preserve the common definition of fully vaccinated, i.e. all doses required in the vaccine regimen.