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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

Summary

We are writing a computer program that takes in factors that affect the spread of COVID-19 and predicting where the next potential locations will be. We are doing this by generating a scale based on research and applying higher values to factors that more drastically affecting the spread of COVID-19. The program will assign each city that is tested with a score, the higher the score the more likely it will be for COVID-19 to appear.

How We Addressed This Challenge

This project addresses the challenge because it satisfies the goal of the challenge which is predicting what areas are likely to be affected by this disease. 

How We Developed This Project

Our project came to fruition with the idea that we wanted to write a program that was able to help officials figure out if their city was of a higher risk of being hit with a second wave of COVID-19. We began by researching, talking to officials,  and discovering what factors tended to be associated with COVID-19 spread. The next step was figuring out how much these factors affected the spread of COVID-19, as not all factors that affect spread are equal. We gave each factor a rating of 1-5 with 5 being the most drastic.  From there, we wrote a code that acted similar to a survey where information about the city is inputted into the code, and the code will output a % match, the higher the percentage, the more likely the city will be to have a COVID-19 outbreak. 

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#COVID-19 #predictinghotspots #humanfactors #hotspots #SpaceAppsChallenge
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This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.