17-Year-Old Boy Creates Global COVID-19 Tracking Website

When the novel coronavirus epidemic is approaching, how can we take protective measures, if we are not comfortable, how can we determine whether we have been infected, and if we have been diagnosed with novel coronavirus, what treatment plan should we take? If you are a health care worker, these may not be problems, but if you are an ordinary person, where should you get the right information?

Novel coronavirus epidemic spreads globally, teenagers worry that people will be misled

A 17-year-old from Seattle, worried wrong news will mislead people, so he created an COVID-19 tracking website by himself, automatically collecting the latest and most accurate data about the new coronavirus. Now people around the world have seen him Efforts, website traffic surged.

As of now, the site has attracted more than 3 million unique visitors, and now has as many as 300,000 returning visits every day, setting a visit record for the past two weeks.
Schiffmann, a student at Mercer Island High School, is currently participating in the Running Start project of Bellevue Community College. He started to create his novel coronavirus information site, ncov2019.live, in early January, when fewer than 1,000 cases were confirmed.

Updated every 10 minutes, displaying epidemic information in multiple dimensions
The website is updated every 10 minutes, and the homepage shows the total number of confirmed cases, the total number of cures, the total number of deaths, etc. in the world, the United States and China;
In addition, he has set up some columns to guide people how to take protective measures;

Also collected some encyclopedic knowledge of novel coronavirus;
Schiffmann spends most of his spare time on this site, receiving about 100 emails a day asking for bug fixes, specific needs, and so on, so he updates every day. "My goal is to get data through multiple methods to make the site the best source of information about novel coronavirus. At the beginning, I didn't think novel coronavirus would affect me, but death and infection near Seattle now make me a bit Afraid ".

Self-taught programming since childhood, proficient in various design software
On his LinkedIn page, Schiffmann said that he has "many years of web development, cross-platform mobile development, and UI and UX design using Adobe and similar tools" and "rich knowledge of popular 3D modeling software." He claims to be the co-founder of a software company called Mojave, and a volunteer for the Mars Association, which advocates human exploration of Mars settlement.