Covy

Covy

Visualize the growth of COVID-19 on our map (US based)

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See a map of all the confirmed and user submitted reports of COVID-19. See hyper localized growth, 1 week predictions for cases, country comparisons, and more.
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Health & Fitness•Tech
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Lucy Guo
Maker
Hey everyone! We wanted to teach people the seriousness of corona virus. From talking to friends, family, and strangers on the internet, we realized that there were still a lot of misconceptions around COVID-19. Few people understood the seriousness of it, comparing it to the flu. We created a visualizations that include one week predictions to help people understand how quickly the numbers can grow. You can filter by your location and see data all the way down to individual counties in the US. TLDR: Please practice social distancing. Corona has a higher death rate, is more contagious, and has a higher hospitalization rate than the flu. And we don’t have enough hospital beds to support everyone. Lives are at stake.
Neetu Singh
Hi @lucy_guo Nice Project. I am from India. I was trying to use the covy app and wanted to see the prediction for India using the 7-day coronavirus forecast but I am unable to do it. I guess it has some issue or may be I am misunderstanding something. Can you help with it?
Lucy Guo
Maker
@neetusingh1791 Working on it. Give us an hour :)
Jarred Sumner
Maker
@lucy_guo @neetusingh1791 I'm working on international support for the charts/stats right now, should be done in about an hour
Toby Unwin
@lucy_guo Love your site. Was just about to build something similar. Where are you getting your data from? I’m a web scraping specialist, was about to build something to scrape down to a County level. Would that be helpful to you? Kind regards, Toby
nathan gonzalez
?makers is this data available for consumption anywhere? are you validating against the cdc or jhu datasets at all?
Jarred Sumner
Maker
@nathan_gonzalez We are using JHU internationally, but domestically in the US, reportings come from local news near the region. For example, here's one from Vermont: https://vtdigger.org/2020/03/16/...
Lucy Guo
Maker
@nathan_gonzalez We are using the John Hopkins data set!
nathan gonzalez
@lucy_guo scraping the US data from the web is great, any plans on exposing that data outside of your app? I could see lots of tools benefiting from the specificity you all have within the US.
Sefi Keller
@lucy_guo @nathan_gonzalez I second that. Are you planning on releasing that data in a dev friendly way?
David Hachuel
Location data is based on IP address (not precise) and not GPS data which is precise within 300ft.
David Hachuel
Check this other project: www.opendemic.org
Jarred Sumner
Maker
@david_hachuel You're half right – it uses the device's GPS (via navigator.geolocation) to get the current user's location. When unavailable, it falls back to geoip. That being said, I'm even a little uncomfortable with precise location data for this product, its not much more useful than a rough location and privacy is important