MeFi Projects

How will academia deal with the Omicron COVID wave? Several of us set up an open Google Sheet to track institutional plans, especially decisions to cancel or move classes online this January. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Dec 22, 2021 - 2 comments

I have assembled tables of COVID-19 virus data using the daily reports from each state of the United States. From this database of approximately 20,000 entries, I have assembled weekly statistics and rankings for each state. [more inside]
posted by dances_with_sneetches on Jul 3, 2020 - 4 comments

1 minute video showing incredible spread of Covid-19 in the US using county case counts from the NYT. Interactive map is here: https://covid-19-map.leshill.app [more inside]
posted by leshill on Apr 12, 2020 - 0 comments

Forget "can I eat this?", the question of the day is "can I touch this?" Finding myself with a porch full of things in various stages of quarantine, I made this app to keep track of how long you need to wait until any coronavirus on an item has probably degraded. [more inside]
posted by joeyh on Mar 24, 2020 - 0 comments

Reading AskMe posts about staying home or going out (and rigid employers) on Metafilter turned into questions I asked myself about when it made sense to go outside, with a focus on this one: What if I'm already infected? [more inside]
posted by kristi on Mar 22, 2020 - 1 comment

I've begun a group on Facebook intended to be a respite from the horrible news of the coronavirus and instead to celebrate the moments or acts of grace and beauty that has arisen as a result of it. This may be singing from the balconies of Italy, art, people helping others, swans and dolphins in the canals of Venice, or the like. [more inside]
posted by QuakerMel on Mar 20, 2020 - 0 comments

The WHO has a list of coronavirus commodities (copy at the bottom of the page here since their link is busted today)... which has significant overlap with things that a lot of people may already have at home, and feed bad about hoarding, and maybe be willing to drop off at their local hospital. Boiled down, this site is just two lists: a set of stuff to potentially donate (from people who have stuff), and a set of needs from potential recipients (for example hospitals that need masks). [more inside]
posted by thandal on Mar 16, 2020 - 1 comment

I wanted to better understand the COVID-19 situation, so I found some open data, wrote some programs to create bar charts and choropleth maps, open-sourced the code, and blogged about it. [more inside]
posted by daveliepmann on Mar 8, 2020 - 3 comments