Where There’s a Link, There’s a Way

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there has been a proliferation of websites and portals developed to share resources about the topic. Your challenge is to find innovative ways to present and analyze integrated, real-time information about the environmental factors affecting the spread of COVID-19.

Influence on Transmission Rate of COVID-19

Summary

Bringing agony and massacre , this Covid-19 has been playing with our lives for a long time now which shows no sign of stopping. As of today, more than 5.91 million cases have been reported across 188 countries, resulting in more than 364,000 deaths. But why is it increasing as the day passes with such a violent manner despite drastic measures? We have analyzed through our website and found out that environmental factors play a massive role in spreading the Covid-19.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Damp areas might be another cause. Lack of sunlight, built damp,unhygienic uninhabitable places but despite this fact, many people choose to inhabit as they don't have places to live.

Damp areas might be another cause. Lack of sunlight, built damp,unhygienic uninhabitable places but despite this fact, many people choose to inhabit as they don't have places to live.

In the winter, the outdoor air is colder, and the air is dryer usually both indoors and out. For influenza, it has been elegantly shown in the lab that absolute humidity — the quantity of water vapor in the air — strongly affects flu transmission, with drier conditions being more favorable.

Factor 2 :  Populated Areas

One of the reasons might be overpopulated areas. People living in largely crowded areas may fall into despair more easily than few crowded areas because vast people result in the spread of this contagious disease.For example, Bangladesh being the one of the most populated countries( population density- 1,115.62 people per square kilometer) makes it prone to faster transmission whereas in Canada(population density- 4 per Km2), things are in a lot of control.It is all because the geographical location of the countries. People are more attracted to comfortable places where they can build a great community and better economy to support them.

Factor 3 : Natural Disasters

Recent news,a powerful cyclone named Amphan managed to wreck East India and Bangladesh which worsened the Covid-19 situation. Natural calamities may affect communities to move from one place to another. This can easily transmit the virus from one place to another.

Factor 4 : Weather and Air Pollutants

Reproductive number, the average number of individuals infected by each infectious person, is key to understanding transmission of diseases. Absent prior immunity and policy responses, this number is estimated to be in the range of 2-3 for COVID-19 across many locations, leading to rapid growth in the number of cases.

Factor 5 : Human Behavior

In the winter humans spend more time indoors with less ventilation and less personal space than outdoors in the summer. In particular, schools are a site of much infectious disease transmission. School terms have been strongly identified as periods of higher transmission for respiratory viruses including those causing chicken pox,  measles, and flu. The 2009 pandemic flu in the United States was very much decreased during the summer, and then came back rapidly in September.

Factor 6 : Immune System of the Host

It is possible that the condition of the average person’s immune system is systematically worse in winter than summer. One hypothesis has focused on melatonin which has some immune effects and is modulated by the photo-period, which varies seasonally. Another with more evidence is that vitamin D levels, which depend in part on ultraviolet light exposure (higher in summer) modulate our immune system in a positive way. The best evidence for the relevance of this hypothesis is that vitamin D supplementation reduces the incidence of acute respiratory infection, according to a meta-analysis of randomized trials.

How We Developed This Project

We first collected the necessary data & API from reliable sources. Then we have integrated them on a website ( https://dev-covid-19-prediction.pantheonsite.io/a/ ) to get a clear and easy visual representation of the data. As all API provides live data we are actually visualizing the current scenario. This also helps us to compare how different parts of the world are reacting to the attack of corona. In this project our main goal is to analyze integrated, real-time information about the environmental factors affecting the spread of COVID-19.

  • Recent a powerful cyclone named Amphan managed to wreck East India and Bangladesh which worsened the Covid-19 situation. That made me thinking  may be this could be taking revenge for our cruelness against her.
  • To work on finding the connection and reliable solution, we first find out the relation of environmental elements and its relation to COVID-19. Then we describe how each element is affecting the spread of COVID-19. To observe  the data we first selected 3 Different countries with different location , environment and economy. Then collected the weather update location, population density and relate this data to the rate of corona spread. And we have created a website (https://dev-covid-19-prediction.pantheonsite.io/a/) to Present all the results and updates.
  • We have used HTML, CSS, Java, PHP to build the website and get the data from different source we have used open source  API.
  • Finding the proper data was the biggest challenge. We faced may problem sourcing the data, There was not much available source and not all API were working. Then the next problem was analyze the data and creating a visual platform to showcase for general people.  Another big problem was to to maintain a solid communication throughout doing the whole project. For covid-19 we are separated from each other and we have to relay on online communication to stay connected. There is a huge load shedding issue in Bangladesh. So you can clearly imagine the tough situations we had faced.
Project Demo

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yQh1nh-z7AZD39VHGplcoDU4auOWfHDvnOLD7CqqjU4/edit?usp=sharing

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#Where There’s a Link, There’s a Way #environment #environment effect of covid-19
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.