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?

Human factors causes for spreading diseases like novelCovid19

Summary

We'd love to share a small idea to this pandemic. We share our thoughts through images and we submitt a small idea about discover medicine for novelCovid19 Pandemic.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Covid-19 mostly effects who decrease immunity. Mostly affected people used alcohol and cigarette. Therefore we must increase our immunity.

Quarantine is best solution. Quarantine changes lot of things in our world. Such as, human's behavior, their relationships with their family even our environment changes. 

According the data, we can see lot of changes in our environment. There are ozone layer is recovered, decrease green house effects and decrease illegal fishing, firing, and migration etc. Include decrease noise pollution, light pollution and food wastes. This is good changes.

Although, many people are died by this pandemic. The correct medicine isn't discovered by anyone. This is our solution that HIV virus first attacked our immune system- T4 cells. After that our immunity is decreased. So who prevent with HIV they are died by other spreading diseases- fever, cough, flu or headache etc. 

Same as this novel Covid-19 pandemic virus also spread who have low immunity. We think that may be HIV treatment help to recover from this pandemic disease. This is our solution.

Next step is quarantine. We can't spend our home in our whole life. Many human factors also help to spread Covid-19. Most one is population density. Therefore every human must understand about self isolation. Don't make population density again. So we can manage it with timing. Every government can enforce new law  to it like

  1. Don't gather more than 5 or 15 members.
  2. Eat healthy food; reduced to use fast food.
  3. If you go out, when you come again to their home they must wash or bath.
  4. Everyone must use mask.
  5. Every lab mustn't research any new micro-organisms.
  6. Every one must understand in self isolation.

Like these law enforcement may be decreased in spread diseases from us.

How We Developed This Project

Human factors heavily contribute to  the reproduction number variation. It is critical to find out these factors since they indicate what measures are essential for flattening the curve. 

We as a team, looked up some data resources  that are available to us. Through comparing the population density in the US and confirmed cases density by county[1], we can conclude that population density and the confirmed cases in the US has really clear proportional relationships. However, population density if not the only indicator for the confirmed cases density. By comparing the population and poverty map[2], we can see that the higher the poverty rate in a area the more likely it will have more confirmed cases and  death by population. 

By pulling out population density map and population and poverty status map, it is clear that population density and poverty status are reliable indicators for Covid-19 reproduction rate.

Project Demo

https://youtu.be/zfyG-enqH7Q

Data & Resources

[1]Arcgis.com, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?useExisting=1&layers=eab0f44ba5184c609175caa7ae317f0c. [Accessed: 31- May- 2020].

[2]Arcgis.com, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?useExisting=1&layers=b2ba19b4cce04a9796d9cdeecaba2f18. [Accessed: 31- May- 2020].

(3) NASA Black marble 

(4) NASA JPL

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#covid19 #humanfactors #nasa #scientist #solution #disease #spread #stop #pattern#populationdensity #covid19cases #related #prevent #spaceapp #internationalspaceappchallenge #covid19challenge #globalnomination
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