Founders of "Instagram" launched a new site that provides live updates at the level of the United States, on the spread of coronavirus emerging corona, under the title RT.live.
The site uses a statistic called the effective reproduction number, which tracks the average number of people who are infected with the virus, from one infected person.
"Bloomberg" interviewed Kevin Systrum, former co-founder of the company "Instagram", in which he said: "We are trying to take what is a complex subject and reduce it to a simple number that anyone can see from home."
The new website data comes as RT.live from COVID Tracking Project, a volunteer organization that has started helping to collect and visualize test and infection rates for the (COVID-19) virus.
He added, Even though he does not have a background in the field of health or epidemiology, the same statistical modeling that applies to the company's rapid growth, may also be useful to track the growth of the virus. However, he does not expect to convert the new site into a company.
For his part, German businessman Chris Boss said in a statement carried by "Reuters" agency that 7 countries either officially supported the European initiative, called "tracking privacy preservation throughout Europe" (PEPP-PT), or mandated one of its members to develop National application.
European experts are working to launch a smartphone technology, which helps track down people who have contacted people with the virus (COVID-19), which will help health authorities act quickly to stop its spread.
The initiative includes collecting data from smartphones to find out who the person with the virus has been in close contact with, so that those at risk can be contacted.
It is believed that the ability to trace people at risk of infection more precisely could help avoid having to “close” entire societies, with the severe economic consequences that this entails.
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