Kevin Basset

The Coronavirus App - Follow the epidemic in real time

Follow the coronavirus in real time, see the latest victim toll and track the spread of the epidemic by country

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Ludwig
Great product, but please: Stop giving this so much attention! Coronavirus is more hyped than the last iPhone. Here in Germany, all the people affected show no severe symptoms at all. Normal flu seems to be more dangerous. The media is to be blamed for the wrong view, they make lots of money out of it and will not stop.
Fabio Muniz
@ludwig_stumpp Not true. 2019-nCov already has more confirmed cases than SARS in a much shorter timeframe, China has quarantined the largest area in recent history, and actual numbers are likely to be way higher given the shortage of testing kits and effort to process those deceased outside hospitals. The virus has HIV inserts never seen in a coronavirus before (See https://www.biorxiv.org/content/...) and that makes containment measures much harder. The incubation period is likely not just two weeks. It doesn't matter if people affected right now show no symptoms at all – what matters is what they, and the people they've spread the virus to – will look like in the next 60 days. Saying we know it won't get a lot worse it a false statement.
Edison Espinosa
@ludwig_stumpp add to the fact that they only report the deaths, not that almost there's going to be more people recovered than are dead
Alexander Serechenko
@fbwlm The paper was almost immediately withdrawn. HIV inserts are spurious. 2 of 4 are found in bat coronavirus. Of the remaining two, only one is most similar to HIV, and is so short (6 AA) that the similarity is not higher than chance given database. https://twitter.com/SKonermann/s...
Youce
@ludwig_stumpp Were you saying?
Nav Gosal
@ludwig_stumpp Yes great product, it inspired us to come up with Corona Warriors, currently its in beta, adding more features soon and launching. For now, you can have your hands on this amazing resources compiled by us - 100+ Coronavirus Infographics, Visualizations & Useful Resources [Viral] https://coronawarriors.com/blog/...
Kevin Basset
We built this app in just 3 days out of concern about the coronavirus. We're both expats in Taiwan, so we're experiencing the psychosis surrounding the epidemic first-hand. When it hit us that there isn't really an app for tracking the epidemic, we decided we'd just go ahead and build one. The app is updated at least once every 6 hours with the latest numbers (often more frequently). You can click/tap on circle to see the details by region. Oh, and it's a PWA, so you can install it on your phone/laptop. We hope that's helpful. Feedback and comments would be much appreciated!
Derek Shanahan
@kbasset really well executed UX/UI, nice work
Valerii Kuznietsov
@kbasset why do you get the data?
Kat Markava
@kbasset great job. Why is the site down?
Jack Smith
cool idea. but i'm confused why the tab title says that this is the "official app" of the Corona Virus. "Official" according to who? screenshots: https://ibb.co/71KsyZL https://ibb.co/xzTT63x
Raj Mahal
Great job!
Paul Anderie
Really well done. May I know, what's the tech stack?
Kevin Basset
@paulanderie Vanilla javascript on the client with a couple of open source libraries for the charts (charts.js) and the map (openLayers). We host the app on Firebase and use node.js on the server.
Rik Nieu
Very slick and focussed! Nice!
Kevin Basset
@riknieu Thank you for the kind words!
Edison Espinosa
More people are recovering and no one is reporting that.. also do you pull your data from this? https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.c... yours say last update was 11 hours, this one is like every other 5 min
Kevin Basset
@edisonjoao6871 Thanks for the comment ! Last update was 11 hours ago because there hasn't been new cases reported officially since then. In general, we'll add new cases to the map within a couple of hours, often faster. The last update of the map you posted was 13.5 hours ago. Absolutely agree with you regarding people recovering -- and this is actually a great sign! That number is just as important as the number of deaths. That's why we display both numbers with equal importance on the app.
Louis Grenard
Love the UI and UX of what you made. Hello from the Hunan province 👋
Kevin Basset
@louistiti_fr Thank you and stay safe!
Sean D. Emory
Really nice. Would be nice to toggle to show rate of change.
Onutz Verde
this is sick
Jerome Biotidara
Looks great is there any way to sign up for changes/newd near me.
Bobby Jones
Wow fantastic!
Adam Liu
This is hardly real time. I'm checking the app and the data is updated 12 hours ago. with the rate of spreading that this coronavirus has, this is too slow.
Kevin Basset
@adamleo the map gets updates as soon as the governments and the news report new confirmed cases. Unfortunately, the governments and the news don't report cases more than once or twice a day -- especially on a Sunday.
JonathanYang
The "Official App" of CoronaVirus ? 🧐
Kat Markava
Why is the site down?
Daniel Chan
Very well made. May I ask which mapping data source are you using? It looks better than Google Map.
Kevin Basset
@danielchan99 Thank you! You can find the list of our data sources under "Credits & sources" in the bottom-right corner of the site.
Samma Karuna
Interesting
Timo Uustal
Great map. We created https://nursebeam.app/coronavirus bot for educating what to do, to stay safe
Praveen Govind
Clean, Nice and great idea!! Keep it up.