Fox 19: UC students create COVID-19 Watcher
Biomedical Informatics students in the College of Medicine track COVID-19 cases
University of Cincinnati students Benjamin Wissel, part of the MD/PhD program, and Pieter-Jan Van Camp, MD, a doctoral student in biomedical informatics, have developed the COVID-19 Watcher. The two UC students, with support from UC faculty and Cincinnati Children’s staff, created an Interactive Dashboard during the spring when there were few options for tracking COVID-19 cases in cities like Cincinnati.
The COVID-19 Watcher displays data from every county and 188 metropolitan areas in the country. Features of the dashboard include ranking of the worst affected areas and auto-generating plots that depict temporal changes in testing capacity, cases and deaths. The COVID-19 Watcher can provide the public with real-time updates of outbreaks in their area. The app pulls in data from the New York Times, which has been tracking COVID-19 cases since January, and merges it with sources from the U.S. Census to map cases for each county and metropolitan area.
Listen to Wissel’s interview with Fox 19.
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