UVa Computer Science Students Build Coronavirus Tracking Website

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Computer Science Students Build Coronavirus Tracking Website



The students’ website provides near-real-time information about the spread of the virus, including infection and mortality rates, recovery rates and locations by country, with links to the latest news and additional information. (Contributed image)

February 12, 2020

Fariss Samarrai, [e-mail]

Four technologically and societally minded friends who graduated from Yorktown High School in Arlington a couple of years ago have maintained a friendship that is carrying through their college years at the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and Stanford University – and are using their relationship to keep the public informed about a major health threat.

Recently they teamed to build a public website that tracks the coronavirus epidemic, recently declared by the World Health Organization to be a “public health emergency of international concern.”

The site provides near-real-time information about the spread of the virus, including infection and mortality rates, recovery rates and locations by country, with links to the latest news and additional information.

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[Farmer-Rick]

1. I understand that a vaccine is on its way

But the soonest turn around for any vaccine from identification to in clinic use was 11 months.

Let's hope it's faster this time around...err the vaccine not the virus.

[JudyM]

2. Very useful and user friendly interface.

Thanks for posting this, mahatmakanejeeves.