The two founders of Instagram have developed a digital tool that measures the average contamination rate generated by a person with Covid-19 in the United States. Dubbed "Rt. Live," the Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger app was designed to allow "everyone to see their state's results in terms of their ability to limit contamination," he told TechCrunch .
Today we're launching https://t.co/JesNRc1Ll2 See how quickly # COVID19 is growing in each US state. Rt is the metric we need to watch.
- Kevin Systrom (@kevin) April 18, 2020The app is based on the use of "open source data analyzes necessary for the daily calculation of these contamination rates", written by Kevin Systrom. Mike Krieger was responsible for creating the program. This is the first collaboration of the two developers since their departure from Facebook.
Infectivity rates calculated State by State
The program offers geographic filters, allowing the visualization of data by state or by geographic area of the United States. These functions give an idea of the effectiveness of the various health policies implemented against the epidemic. Rt. Live shows that states that have confined their populations have better results than others. The coronavirus has been better circumscribed in the west of the country than in the south.
The lowest infectiousness rate is that of New York State, which is 0.54. Georgia has the highest figure with a score of 1.5. "When states consider resuming their activities, they will need to closely monitor the rate of spread of the virus. We hope that dashboards like Rt. Live will help them, ”commented Mike Krieger.
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