Fluff and Logic

In the early days of Covid-19, before vaccines and Covid at-home tests were available, one of the most important and difficult things to do was to figure out how to detect Covid hotspots before they could spread further. Unlike most other diseases, Covid sufferers are asymptomatic for up to two weeks after they're already become contagious and spreading the virus to others. Most of the data was based on self reporting by the CDC and state and city health officials after the fact.

A team of engineers from Google and doctors from Florida decided to something about it. The goal was to develop a system to gather information on Covid spread much earlier than was possible at the time. I helped design the website, branding, and text messaging flow that would help users volunteer information about their Covid status and build an anonymized database of where Covid hotspots were, so health officials and experts could be dispatched to the right location to help curb the spread of the virus.