Coders Against COVID
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| Founded | March 15, 2020 |
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| Founder(s) | Jorge A. Caballero Andrew Kemendo |
| Key people | Martin Amps, Phil Arpin, Osman Dandia, Hannah Day, Anthony DiMarco, Eric Evans, Adam Fahy, John Knapp, Ming Ling, Justin Paterno, Ilan Ponimansky, John Porter |
| Website | https://codersagainstcovid.org |
| Commercial | No |
| Current status | Active |
Content licence | Data and website content is subject to a CC BY 4.0 license. |
Coders Against COVID is a volunteer effort that provides data and analytics on the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States to government agencies, journalists, academicians, non-profits, and the general public.
History and background[edit]
Coders Against COVID was founded by Andrew Kemendo, then-USAF Kessel Run's Chief Data Officer, and Jorge A. Caballero, then-Clinical Instructor of Anesthesia at Stanford School of Medicine and prior-Head of Data at Amino.[1][2][3] This volunteer effort was formed on March 15, 2020 through a series of posts on the social news forum, Hacker News.[4][5][6]
On March 21, 2020 Coders Against COVID launched the first national COVID-19 testing site locator for the United States.[1][7][8][9][3][10]
On March 23, 2020 Coders Against COVID joined FEMA's Crowdsourcing Unit as a Digital Volunteer Organization, according to a directory managed by the USGS.[11]
By March 25, 2020 Coders Against COVID had entered into a collaborative effort with GISCorps involving the COVID-19 testing site data.[12][13][3][14]
On April 2020, the COVID-19 testing sites locator produced by the collaborative effort of GISCorps and Coders Against COVID as FEMA's App of the Week.[14]
On May 5th, 2020 the COVID-19 Testing Sites Locator was added to a healthcare emergency preparedness information exchange managed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.[15]
Notable contributions[edit]
The data and analytics produced by Coders Against COVID is the basis for:
- Academic research
- Press coverage on the following topics:
- Racial and ethnic disparities in access to coronavirus testing
- Racial and ethnic disparities in coronavirus case rates[21]
- Income, racial and ethnic disparities in access to COVID-19 testing in the San Francisco Bay Area[22]
- The risk of opening schools[23]
- Disparities in access to testing for rural communities[24]
- Congressional action by Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.), two members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee. They sent letters to retail pharmacies with the goal of increasing access to pediatric COVID-19 testing at their sites.[25]
- Official government resources:
- COVID-19 Testing Sites Locator (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
- COVID-19 Testing Sites in California (State of California)
- Georgia Geospatial Information Office (State of Georgia)
- COVID-19 Testing Locations[26] (Volusia County, Florida)
- City of Tulsa COVID-19 Dashboard (City of Tulsa, OK)
Other known mentions, applications, and use-cases[edit]
| Organization | Title | Use case |
|---|---|---|
| Surgo Ventures | Most rural US counties are in COVID-19 'testing deserts' | Policy Brief |
| Morning Consult | Black Americans Deserve Affordable, Accessible Health Care | OpEd |
| Mid-America Regional Council | KC Region COVID-19 Resource Hub | Dashboard |
| Newsbreak.com | San Antonio COVID-19 testing sites that don’t require a doctor’s referral | Custom testing site locator |
| Times Union | Capital Region coronavirus testing sites | Custom testing site locator |
| ABC7 | Map shows everywhere you can get a COVID-19 test in the Bay Area | Custom testing site locator |
| TrafficCast | Incident Data Feed Includes Test Site Locations and Traffic Restrictions | Product integration |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Etherington, Darrell (2020-03-22). "Volunteer group develops a COVID-19 testing location database for the U.S." TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-02-03. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Jorge A. Caballero's Profile | Stanford Profiles". profiles.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Reynolds, Jason M. (2020-03-23). "Coders Building Database Need Health Care Workers to Report Coronavirus Testing Sites So They Can Provide Data to Officials Battling Disease". Star (newspaper). Retrieved 2021-02-03. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Show HN: A Covid-19 testing location site that a group of us are building | Hacker News". news.ycombinator.com. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- ↑ "Ask HN: Can we collectively build a C19 test location site? | Hacker News". news.ycombinator.com. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- ↑ "Ask HN: Can we build an open source platform that helps COVID-19 patients? | Hacker News". news.ycombinator.com. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- ↑ "codersagainstcovidorg/covid19testing-map". GitHub. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- ↑ "oscarhealth/covid19-testing". GitHub. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- ↑ Wilson, Marsha. "Website Launched to Connect Public to COVID-19 Testing Locations". ScaleSec. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- ↑ Erickson, Mandy (2020-08-27). "Stanford physician-programmer creates Coders Against COVID". Scope published by Stanford Medicine. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
By March 21, the group's 10 volunteers had launched a website that was among the first in the country to help people find COVID-19 test sites throughout the United States. Currently, it shows more than 20,000 locations, including temporary ones, all available to the public.
Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "COVID-19 Open Innovation Efforts FEMA Crowdsourcing Unit COVID-19 Activation". USGS. 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2021-02-03. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ GISP, Ryan Lanclos, Este Geraghty, MD, MS, MPH (2020-04-29). "GISCorps Builds an Authoritative Map of COVID-19 Testing Sites". Esri. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- ↑ "Hundreds of Volunteers Create Nationwide COVID-19 Testing Site Layer". GISCorps. 2020-03-29. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "App of the Week: COVID-19 Testing Sites Locator". Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Retrieved 2021-02-03.
GISCorps collaborated with Coders Against COVID, who contributed physician-vetted data developed through their own crowdsourcing site
Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "COVID-19 Testing Sites Locator | Technical Resources". ASPR TRACIE. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
GISCorps and Coders Against COVID. (2020). COVID-19 Testing Sites Locator. (Added 5/15/2020.) This map identifies COVID-19 testing sites across the U.S. The color-coded map indicates the type of testing available at each site: molecular, antibody, antigen, a combination of types, or unknown. Users can click on each site for additional information, including testing requirements and directions to the site.
Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Rader, Benjamin; Astley, Christina M; Sy, Karla Therese L; Sewalk, Kara; Hswen, Yulin; Brownstein, John S; Kraemer, Moritz U G (2020-05-15). "Geographic access to United States SARS-CoV-2 testing sites highlights healthcare disparities and may bias transmission estimates". Journal of Travel Medicine. 27 (7). doi:10.1093/jtm/taaa076. ISSN 1195-1982. PMC 7239151 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 32412064 Check|pmid=value (help).A national database of SARS-CoV-2 testing sites was curated using the Carbon Health (N = 5376) and CodersAgainstCovid (N = 1547) datasets (accessed 7th April 2020).
- ↑ Winterbauer, Elizabeth; Levy, Phillip D.; Calhoun, Dustin; Elwell, Timothy; Fishbein, Eliza; Donohue, Stacy; Little, Jessica (2021-03-01). "Qualitative review of promising practices for testing vulnerable populations at off-site COVID-19 testing centers". Healthcare. 9 (1): 100519. doi:10.1016/j.hjdsi.2021.100519. ISSN 2213-0764. PMC 7836240 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 33454583 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Owens, Caitlin (2020-06-23). "People of color have less access to coronavirus testing". Axios (website). Retrieved 2021-02-03.
using data from Coders Against COVID
Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Grothaus, Michael (2020-06-23). "Want more access to COVID-19 testing? Live in a white ZIP code". Fast Company. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
an interesting new analysis of data from the Coders Against COVID project
Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Hernandez, Sarah Krouse, Brianna Abbott and Daniela (2021-01-22). "WSJ News Exclusive | Covid-19 Tests Are Still Hard to Get in Many Communities". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
The Surgo analysis is based on Coders Against Covid’s data, in collaboration with nonprofit Urban and Regional Information Systems Association’s GISCorps.
Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Owens, Caitlin (2020-07-01). "Coronavirus cases skyrocketing among communities of color". Axios (website). Retrieved 2021-02-03.
Adapted from Coders Against Covid
Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Dizikes, Cynthia (2020-07-26). "Richer, whiter Bay Area cities got coronavirus testing quickly. Low-income areas didn't". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
To quantify the disparities for the first time, The Chronicle analyzed data collected by Coders Against COVID and GISCorps, volunteer groups that have amassed the most comprehensive database of community testing sites in the country.
Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Owens, Caitlin (2020-09-25). "1 big thing: Where bringing students back to school is most risky". Axios (website). Retrieved 2021-02-03.
Schools in Southern and Midwestern states are most at risk of coronavirus transmission, according to an analysis by Coders Against COVID that uses risk indicators developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Schumaker, Erin (2020-10-16). "The last COVID-free counties in America". ABC News. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
Data: URISA’s GISCorps, Coders Against COVID, and Esri, 2020. COVID-19 Testing Locations in the United States. Spatial dataset.
Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Warren, Smith Question Top Retail Testing Providers Companies on Lack of Pediatric Testing at Their COVID-19 Testing Sites | U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts". www.warren.senate.gov. 2020-10-09. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
the volunteer group Coders Against Covid has been compiling a national directory of testing locations since March 2020
Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Solodev (2020-05-05). "Testing Information". www.volusia.org. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- COVID-19 Testing Site Locator
- (Unofficial) White House Coronavirus Task Force Report
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