High school student Avi Schiffmann made a coronavirus tracker
Avi Schiffmann, a teenager in Washington State,
created a coronavirus tracker website that has more than 30 million visitors each day.
He turned down the chance to make millions from ads to preserve the site’s UI.
Schiffmann thinks the connections with VCs and investors might be helpful to him in the future.
The coronavirus pandemic
doesn’t look like it will be over any time soon,
Schiffmann plans to continue actively tracking it until the end. As long as the site is up, he says he will keep working at it and adding new features.
Once the pandemic is safely over, he’ll take the servers down, and maybe make a page that compares COVID-19 to SARS or the Spanish flu.
He thinks it might be a historical piece of the coronavirus people can look back on.
Avi Schiffmann’s coronavirus tracker
is a one-stop shop for all the information about COVID-19 the average person might want to know.
It constantly updates with statistics for countries around the world on
- infections,
- deaths,
- recovered, and
- rates of change
- using data scraped from
- the WHO,CDC, and other government websites.
The site frequently offers new features, like the new survival rate calculator.
It also has infections broken down on a map, and pages with some basic information about the virus, including tips for hand hygiene and a list of symptoms.
https://www.businessinsider.com/high-school-student-avi-schiffman-made-a-coronavirus-tracker-2020-5