Home Screen
Twitterbot Page
Python for Twitterbot
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COVID-19 Risk Assessment Tool
Low Risk Result of Assessment
High Risk Result of Assessment
COVID-19 Statistics

Inspiration

This pandemic has turned our normal lives into lives of panic and distress. As many people in my community get ready to begin pre-COVID life once again, we want to make sure everyone can still understand how much is too much at the moment.

In addition to that teens do not have the best new outlet for the latest news on COVID. We want to make sure everyone has a chance to get to understand what is happening and the actual intensity of this situation.

As an asset to our community, we want to help get more people vaccinated. That's why we also made a tweeting bot that will post new vaccine location updates every hour.

We decided the best thing to do for our community is to clear up all the confusion with our app called COVID Aware.

What it does

Our app COVID Aware is a web app that provides information about the COVID-19 situation in Hudson County. It helps people see the truth about this situation while also helping them transition into their normal lives with helpful surveys and truthful logistics.

Our app will start off by opening up the homepage which will then present you with three choices. Choice 1: Find Vaccines; this choice will give you an updated location from our tweet bot of where the latest vaccine availabilities are. It will not only provide you with the place and time it was published on the internet but also the website where you can book your appointment. Choice 2: Covid-19 Statistics; this page will show you all the most updated information about COVID. This includes the rates of infection, new daily cases per 100k, rate of positive tests, the amount of the ICU that is used, and the percent of vaccinated. Choice 3: COVID-19 Risk Calculator; this is a mini quick or survey that will ask you a few questions about the place you plan to go to. When you finish answering all the questions it will give you an assessment of how likely you are to get the virus. The risk can either be low, medium, or high.

How we built it

We used Python, JSON, HTML, and Twitter Developer API to create the Twitterbot that tweets vaccine availability information.

We built the exoskeleton using OutSystems. Outsystems allowed us to make a progressive web app with workable features like buttons and surveys and a phone-like demonstration on a computer.

Challenges we ran into

The first challenge we ran into was choosing the best project from our list of project ideas as there were multiple ideas that we were passionate about. To find the best idea we used a voting system where we would rank each idea, and the idea with the overall best ranking would be the one we chose. The second challenge was to find a set of tools relevant to the pandemic situation that would be of most use to our community. The third challenge we ran into while developing was finding a website with vaccine availability JSON data for our python program. The fourth challenge we encountered occurred when we had to find and implement an algorithm for our COVID risk assessment.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Accomplishments we are proud of include making a Twitterbot that tweets the most recent vaccine availability information for our Hudson County Community, translating a research paper published in the British Medical Journal into our Covid Risk evaluator tool, and creating a User-Friendly interface that can provide valuable information to our community all in one day.

What we learned

We learned how to use the Twitter Developer API in our python program to build a Twitterbot. We learned to build an html page to display the Twitter feed and Covid Statistics. We learned about the current research in COVID Risk assessment and how to assess the risk of transmission by taking input from the user about their planned activity.

What's next for COVID Aware

We plan to make COVID Aware 2.0 with an expanded COVID Risk assessment tool which will take into account additional variables, and provide information for other counties in New Jersey.