Louisiana National Guard members gather information from first responders and medical personnel at a Covid-19 coronavirus Mobile Testing Center, in Westwego, Louisiana. Schiffman uses web scraping to retrieve the data for his website. By using web scraping, Schiffman can download data from government websites and automatically have the data update on his site every couple of minutes. — Zuma Press/TNS
In the third grade, he coded a website with stick figures. In middle school, he coded video games. Now, at 17, Avi Schiffmann has coded a highly-trafficked website that tracks cases of Covid-19, also known as the coronavirus.
Covid-19 is a respiratory illness that first emerged in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. Schiffmann, who lives in Seattle, coded the coronavirus tracking website ncov2019.live when there were fewer than 1,000 cases in China. Since then, it has spread to more than 165 countries, with more than a quarter-million cases. On March 11, the World Health Organisation officially characterized coronavirus as a pandemic.
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