Covid Act Now
Covid Act Now (CAN) is an independent, 501(c)3 nonprofit that provides local-level disease intelligence and data analysis on COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
| URL | https://covidactnow.org/ |
|---|---|
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | March 2020 |
CAN provides open-source tools, a realtime U.S. COVID risk map by state and county, and information for pandemic response. l.
CAN's model is based on a traditional SEIR model by Alison Hill, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins’ Institute for Computational Medicine, and was developed with Rebecca Katz, a professor and director of the Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security, and her team.
Covid Act Now's modeling and data partners include Grand Rounds, a digital healthcare company, and USA Facts, an initiative launched by Steve Ballmer.
CAN published the first version of its model on March 20, 2020. .Covid Act Now's university affiliates are the Georgetown University Center for Global Health Science and Security, Stanford University Clinical Excellence Research Center, and Harvard Global Health Institute.
CAN assists partners ranging from local county health departments to multinational corporations in developing COVID response plans.