COVID-19 Cloud Based Heat Maps for Area Segmentation

The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis of our time and the greatest challenge we have faced since World War Two. Since its emergence in Asia late last year, the virus has spread to every continent except Antarctica. Cases are rising daily in Africa, the Americas and Europe. Countries are racing to slow the spread of the disease by testing and treating patients, carrying out contact tracing, limiting travel, quarantining citizens, and canceling large gatherings such as sporting events, concerts, and schools.

The pandemic is moving like a wave—one that may yet crash on those least able to cope. But COVID-19 is much more than a health crisis. By stressing countries like Kenya, the pandemic has the potential to create devastating social, economic, and political crises that will leave deep scars.

One of the hindrances to the fight against the spread of the virus is the spread of Misinformation. This may be in the form of how the virus is contracted, detected, prevented, and even the statistics related to it. In such an unpredicted situation of how long the pandemic will go on, step by step many countries have started crafting ways of how to coexist with the virus by reopening their economies while keeping precautionary measures to ensure we do not awaken the second wave of the virus.

Solution

COVID-19 Cloud-Based Heat Maps for Area Segmentation has then been developed to reveal proactive identification of emerging hot spots of vulnerable populations at risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19.

COVID-19 Community Risk & Health Disparities Map reveals proactive identification of emerging hot spots of vulnerable populations at risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19. The publicly available tool pinpoints where to focus and scale resources, inform proactive scenario planning, and develop community COVID-19 initiatives.

Governors across Kenya are considering whether to extend stay-at-home orders or allow businesses, parks, beaches, recreational facilities, and other locations to reopen. Before they make a decision, they may want to consult this new interactive COVID-19 heat map that allows users to determine the risk of contracting the virus on a county-by-county basis in the near future.

The tool also uses graphs to do statistical comparisons related to the COVID-19 spread on a country basis. For example, the graphs also compare how the disease is spread in Kenya against other sampled Countries like South Africa, India, Italy, and Brazil.