Our project collects data to detect and alert the human population regarding the hotspots of COVID-19. The data collected will be used to create a health alert app. Additionally, the data will be used to alert different sources of media, to make people more aware of the current global situation.
Our app will also be able to help people if they need any COVID-19 updates, travel restriction news, CDC alerts, and more information. As a future step, this app will be enhanced to include other global crises (like the Novel Coronavirus). With the app, we will be able to track it and prevent it from growing to a large scale.
The spread of the COVID-19 virus is the most pressing issue in our society today. Without making large advancements in this area, we will continue to suffer the terrible effects of this disease. Our team was inspired by the population density maps of the world overlaid over the map of infection rates. This challenge provided the unique opportunity to show how the mapping of humanity spreads disease. We first looked at the maps and data of people in areas heavily affected by the virus. We were interested in the fact that COVID-19 is not bound by geographic and temporal locations, and that it can very easily survive anywhere. We researched the virus and looked for data on the exact spread of the virus and how it moved from country to country. After doing our research, we gathered ideas for the solution. We decided that an app will be the best solution, in order to make people in the world more aware of COVID-19. For creating the app and alerts, we will use code.org's app lab. During our project, we found it a little difficult to find materials of research on how the virus exactly spread, as the specificity that we were looking for was hard to find online. The easiest data to obtain was that concerning population densities of people. There were many maps and sources from which we could pull data.
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