University of Michigan School of Information
MI Safe Start Map Enhancements
As the pandemic has evolved, new features of the disease symptoms, testing,
and tracking have evolved in importance. This project focuses on addressing
four new objectives:
1) Providing age and race structured analysis of the COVID-19 epidemiology
(e.g. case counts, incidence, case-fatality)
2) Enhancement of the COVID19-symptom hotspot dashboard for local/state
health officials that has different levels of granularity for different audiences
(e.g. general public, local/state health officials, and restricted county-level
access)
3) Integration of forecast modeling of COVID-19 into the MI Safe Start Map
dashboard
4) Providing help desk support for epidemiological questions on these new
features
Expected Outcome :
- New metrics of age and race-specific measures will be available on the private
(and perhaps public) MI Safe Start dashboard for display of daily, weekly,
monthly views
- New hot spot dashboard incorporated as a resource on the MI Safe Start
dashboard for display of daily, weekly, monthly views of the MI Symptom data
at an aggregate and individual level
- New forecasting models incorporated as a resource on the MI Safe Start
dashboard (private side) for display of weekly and monthly projections
- A simple to use database of vetted answers to recurring questions about the
epidemic indicators on the MI Safe Start Dashboard
The grant was funded by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. The amount of the award is $43,349 over the project period.