Today, the World is worried about coronavirus.
We are fighting against this deadly disease, and want to know everything about this virus. The spread of the new coronavirus around the world is bringing out the best in some people. 17-year-old high school senior Avi Schiffmann lives in Washington state. He created a website to monitor the coronavirus, as well as to provide facts about the illness.
The teenager is so dedicated to his project that he spends up to 6 hours each day to improve the website that has millions of views. Before the second version of his website went live, he spent his whole weekend in his room to work through the night and staying up until 7 AM.
Avi goes to Mercer Island High School.point 252 |
He launched his website in December 2019 and has been tinkering with it ever since.point 69 | He updates his website with the number of people affected by the illness every 10 minutes.point 144 | He provides all the information by collecting and cross-referencing data from sources such as the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as local health departments.point 323 |
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“I thought it would be cool if there was a website that could pull in all the information from all kinds of sources,” the teenager told TODAY.point 340 |
“I mainly wanted to create something that would show the data as accurately as possible because there has been a lot of misinformation.point 115 | ”point 118 | 1
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He continued: I’m always adding new features.point 151 | It’s going to adapt as it goes along.point 183 | In the future, it might be less interesting to know there are five cases in France.point 251 |
We might be more interested in knowing the percentage increase from last week to this week.point 76 | ”point 79 | 1
According to the teen, people send him messages if they spot anything inaccurate.point 368 |
“A while ago, there was a massive bug, where it doubled all the numbers of coronavirus cases.point 79 | And I got hundreds of messages.point 105 | But overall, I’ve done a good job of managing my server.point 153 | ”point 156 | 1
He also updates the numbers of people who’ve recovered from the coronavirus to show a more nuanced picture of the situation.
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