Corona 19 tracking site created by two Instagram founders

Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Kreiger unveiled their first service after they left Facebook together. Rt.live is a site that tracks how rapidly Corona 19 is spreading across countries with it.

Rt is a score representing the average number of infected people born to one infected person. If the number is greater than 1, the virus spreads rapidly within the population, and if it is less than 1, it is converging. Here, for example, Georgia has an Rt score of 1.5, which is the most dangerous at its maximum, but New York State has fallen to 0.54 due to a strong home waiting order.

They said that they wanted to write a data analysis memo on how to calculate the daily Rt, make it open source, conceive of this, and make the infection status by footnote visible to anyone. According to the site, as of April 17 (local time), in Texas and California, the number was a little above 1 or 1, and Vermont’s highest score was 0.33. Looking at the graph by time, Washington State and Georgia once succeeded in fighting COVID-19 and remained below 1 until the recent virus recurs. Data was obtained from the COVID-19 tracking project and the modeling system is available on GitHub.

They explained that infection status must be carefully monitored to lift country-specific emergency orders, and dashboards on these sites will help. It is a visual indication that very small differences, such as compliance with the home waiting policy, can increase the severity of the virus’s impact exponentially. These tools can also help you decide whether to safely resume some businesses, and can quickly determine whether the virus is spreading rapidly and strict social distancing is needed again. Another notable feature of this site is that there are filters for each region.

They unveiled a statistical model on March 19 to track the number of corona19 infections and deaths. He explains that the reason why AltiLive was created is because he thought that the effective infection rate was the best way to understand the spread of Corona 19. Related information can be found here .