How does it work?
An AI has been trained on the hundreds of thousands of county-level data points available from the New York Times to recognize when a wave of COVID is about to hit. The percentages represent the probability of an imminent COVID wave. For this purpose, a COVID wave is when the 7-day moving average of daily new cases is 5% higher after 14 days. That means if the moving average of cases is 5% higher two weeks from now then today would be classified as having an imminent COVID wave.
County Lookup
Lookup uses the FIPS code for each county, which is different from the more common ZIP codes used by the postal service, so search by the county and state name.
Credits
- COVID-19 data from the New York Times
- Map from the Census Bureau
- Built during the UniHacks hackathon
Source Code
Available on GitHub at tslnc04/covid-wave-predictor.