Instagram’s Kevin Systrom built a free Covid-19 tracking site to help you make safer decisions:
, with partner Rocket Mortgage, in support of the city of Detroit. Through his research, he learned about a metric called . Well known in epidemiology, it measures the rate that a virus spreads from person to person."If R is less than one, then the outbreak shrinks. If it's larger than one, it grows exponentially—and that's a bad thing."
Launched in mid-April, the site now attracts more than 100,000 daily users, including health officials, media outlets, and government leaders—N.Y. Governor Andrew Cuomo has quoted the website in his popular daily press briefings. The site shows if the Covid rate of reproduction is growing or shrinking in each state, and the effect that shutdowns—and reopenings—are having on the virus’s spread. Says Systrom:"My goal was to be apolitical, factual, and show people the data.
“Eight years ago, we were hoping that a couple thousand people might use Instagram, and then you get to a point where over one billion people are using it and using it for good... Anyone who claims early on that they know their business is going to be that large is lying.”
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