No one could have predicted that there would be a need for his website, but now it has become an important website during the COVID-19 era.
Avi Schiffmann is a 19-year-old high school student in Washington State, USA. He gained a spotlight in 2020 because of a website he developed on his own to track COVID-19 cases throughout the world. Just a few months later, Avi’s website was getting 30 million visitors each day, which added up to over 600 million visitors.
When he was 17 years old, Avi was looking online for the COVID-19 case numbers online and all he could find was a slightly sketchy website in Chinese that he couldn’t understand. Because of this, Avi decided to create his own website which could display COVID-19 information in an unbiased and user-friendly way. With his experience with coding and website development that he taught himself, Avi was able to build the website and code it himself.
The website was released in January 2020 and made it possible for millions of families to stay up to date on the condition of the world during those difficult times.
The website shows a number of different types of numbers, including total confirmed cases, total of deaths, total recovered, and total vaccinated. The website also shows cases in each country and has a map to show data per country. The website is continually updated and shows accurate data.
Click here to visit the website.
I think I might have actually seen this website before. This is a great example of find and solving a brand-new problem. I’m curious how he found all the information for his website and if his website is a non-profit business or if the website has ads, sponsors, or subscriptions.
It is so cool how he took a problem and inconvenience, and solved it by making it better. There are websites that show the number of cases, but most are not good and it depends on the state and county. He must’ve taken the numbers from the bad website and transfer them over to his new one.