Human Factors

The emergence and spread of infectious diseases, like COVID-19, are on the rise. Can you identify patterns between population density and COVID-19 cases and identify factors that could help predict hotspots of disease spread?

Covid Busters

Summary

This project comprises a summary of previous researches and studies regarding the topic of Covid-19 and it relation to some important factors that could potentially change an entire country's situation.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our project approaches this challenge with the intent of providing some solutions to the recent Covid-19 outbreak by stressing on key factors that have affected the virus in some areas around the world. Areas of high pollution, for example, were observed to have a very high number of Covid-19 cases. We constructed a research explaining all possible factors and indicators that have the ability to impact the virus.

How We Developed This Project

We carefully looked into all the challenges, analysed them and picked the one we think is the most suitable for us to work with, one that has the most resources and information. We used Nasa's satellite data concerning the change in NO2 concentrations in China over the course of 2 months. We used only software programs to make this research and we had some problems figuring out how to counter some of the bad effects that factors may have. We finally made some recommendations and solutions to counteract these side effects.

Data & Resources

https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/pathfinders/covid-19/environmental-impacts

https://www.unicef.org/montenegro/en/stories/higher-temperatures-affect-survival-new-coronavirus

Zhu, Y., Xie, J., Huang, F., & Cao, L. (2020). Association between short-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 infection: Evidence from China. Science of The Total Environment, 727, 138704. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138704

Tags
#air_quality #Human_Factors
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.