In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, National governments have applied lockdown restrictions to reduce the infection rate.We perform a massive analysis on near real-time Italian data provided by Facebook to investigate how lockdown strategies affect economic conditions of individuals and local...

We develop a minimalist compartmental model to analyze policies on mobility restriction in Italy during the COVID-19 outbreak. Our findings show that a early lockdowns barely shift the epidemic in time: moreover, beyond a critical value of the lockdown strength, an epidemic that seems to be...