Projects
Outreach: Communicates with individuals, communities, and governments, providing guidelines for action.
Communications: Provides information throughout the world through newsletters and various social media platforms.
Response: Engaging in medical response innovation and facilitates deliveries of medical equipment and PPE to those in need.
Tech: Builds websites and apps to help track and prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Scanning and Analytics: Discover, analyse, and present data related to COVID-19.
Call to Action
COVID-19 is a rapidly transmitting disease that evolves in 20% of confirmed cases to require extended hospitalizations and roughly 2-4% of confirmed cases result in death, with risks increasing rapidly for those over 50 years old. It can transmit even with mild symptoms (coughing, sneezing, or elevated temperature) and perhaps before symptoms appear. Reducing the likelihood of transmission requires everyone to reduce their likelihood of contact not only so they aren’t infected but also so that they don’t transmit the disease to others.
If everyone got tested for COVID-19, we could temporarily separate the infected from the uninfected. This would help reduce the spread of the virus and allow for societies to function normally. For these reasons, universal testing is our highest priority.
Aggressive and bold actions are required to reduce transmission by minimizing close-contact interaction in order to reduce vulnerability and risk for individuals, but also to “get ahead” of the outbreak so that it is stopped.
Everyone can help. Here are some steps you can take today:
Stay informed. Read our guidelines for minimizing spread at all levels, and share them widely.
Sign up to receive our newsletter with updates on our latest projects and opportunities for volunteers.
Call your local leaders and use our script to encourage them to implement public safety measures.
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Projects
Interactive Worldwide Plots
Interactive Maps and visualizations
Made by Amir Akhavan and the NECSI Team.
Explore a global map which shows various COVID-19 statistics per 1 million people
Explore a global map which shows the cumulative number of government measures per country
Explore a global map which presents analyzed data for each country
See an animation for visualizing case fatality rates for several countries
See a visualization which shows COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes for several regions around the world which have been heavily impacted by the virus
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Success Stories
See our recent press coverage here
We have become a globally recognized source of reliable information and effective guidelines
Our Coronavirus Guidelines for Businesses were adopted by the ICC which includes 45 million companies in over 100 countries
We have set up a website which helps individuals within the US reach out to their elected representatives to help us fight COVID-19
Appeared in many news articles and podcasts for general and targeted audiences around the world. See our article in USA TODAY suggesting a 5-week lockdown to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Created a database of over 7,000 scientists to help fight COVID-19
Invented a 3D-printed ventilator, awaiting FDA approval
Began the Safe Spaces, Safe Circles, and Crush the Curve movements
Arranged for countless deliveries of PPE to those in need
Created a deep learning model that detects COVID-19 on X-ray scans (which won a prize from the Polish prime minister)
Played instrumental roles in canceling countless mass gatherings, suspending in-person school, and informing governments around the world
Created free, privacy-first contact tracing technology for both individuals and communities to help stop the spread of COVID-19.
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