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VirusTIM, Help Slow Coronavirus and COVID 19

VirusTIM - Contact Tracing and Isolation Management System will help slow coronavirus and COVID 19.

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VirusTIM, Help Slow Coronavirus and COVID 19

VirusTIM, Help Slow Coronavirus and COVID 19

VirusTIM, Help Slow Coronavirus and COVID 19

VirusTIM, Help Slow Coronavirus and COVID 19

VirusTIM, Help Slow Coronavirus and COVID 19

VirusTIM - Contact Tracing and Isolation Management System will help slow coronavirus and COVID 19.

VirusTIM - Contact Tracing and Isolation Management System will help slow coronavirus and COVID 19.

VirusTIM - Contact Tracing and Isolation Management System will help slow coronavirus and COVID 19.

VirusTIM - Contact Tracing and Isolation Management System will help slow coronavirus and COVID 19.

Chuck Bagby
Chuck Bagby
Chuck Bagby
Chuck Bagby
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Good for humanity but a bad business = Community backing needed

Although this is needed all over the world right now, there is no long term business potential. When people stop getting infected, VirusTIM will run out of customers.  This is why it needs to be a community project with your backing.

The problem: Coronavirus & COVID-19 

Our communities are overwhelmed by COVID-19. The disease caused by the coronavirus. It has forced us to shut down our economy, close our schools and is overwhelming our healthcare system. You are living the experience. I do not need to tell you about it.

The solution: VirusTIM (Contact Tracing and Isolation Management) 

In New Zealand, Taiwan, and China contact tracing and isolation management has shown to be very effective in slowing and stopping the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. 

VirusTIM (Contact Tracing and Isolation Management) will automate and manage the process of contact tracing and isolation management with the use of a mobile smart phone app and a desktop application. The VirusTIM application will also manage the delivery of food, medicine and services to those who are sick in isolation but not sick enough to go to the hospital. Over 80% of people with COVID-19 do not need to be hospitalized, but many of these people need to be looked after in isolation because they either live alone or have high risk family members that they do not want to infect.

Contact tracing and isolation management requires a huge effort by a large number of people. People working in call centers, calling everyone who was in contact with a confirmed case and field support personnel who do testing, deliver meals, medicines and support to those in isolation. In the city of Wuhan, there were over 9,000 people doing contact tracing for just one city. Tens of thousands of people will be needed in the United States for many cities.

The United States is Failing in their contact tracing and isolation efforts. The US front line against the coronavirus is staffed by county health officials. It is their job to identify and isolate people who have been exposed to the coronavirus. The problem is that they do not have good tools and they have become overwhelmed with the number of cases. VirusTIM will help in managing the recruitment of large teams to do contact tracing and isolation management.

No other options are available to manage contact tracing and isolation. There are mobile apps available that do individual tracking. They use wireless Bluetooth to detect and record who is around them. Although these mobile apps are categorized as contact tracing they are actually tracking apps that may not be tolerated by Americans because of the invasion of privacy.

Why we need your support

In order for our economies to return to normal we need to take a more proactive approach to reducing the spread of the coronavirus. VirusTIM will help communities in their campaign against coronavirus. It does not make a good business proposition because when people stop getting infected it will run out of customers. For this reason it needs the backing of people in the community like you.

Other ways to support the project

One of the best ways to help us is by sharing our Indiegogo project page to your friends and institutions who will be interested in and want to support this project. If you would like to support this project in other ways. Please reach out to me here on Indiegogo.

Goals

Primary Goal: Raise 17K! - Basic Mobile and Desktop Application. This is a very low cost for a system consisting of both mobile and desktop applications. I set the primary goal low so that if there is little interest at least something will get done. In a basic way, it will work for doing contact tracing and isolation management. It will be available for future epidemics in any country on earth.

Basic website, desktop and mobile application for the management of tasks in support of contact tracing and isolation management.

  • Mobile and Desktop app with cloud code and website.
  • Ability to sign up users and patients.
  • Create and assign tasks to users.
  • Maintain a task summary for each patient.
  • Task reminders for patient service providers.

 

Stretch Goals

Stretch goal #1: Raise 50K! Extended Features and Offline Support. If we raise 50K, we will be able to create a fully featured system consisting of mobile and desktop application connected to the cloud for data storage. It will work offline during intermittent connection outages. (Necessary for rural and third world communities.) It will include wizards, management reports and automated communications.

  • Offline support so that the mobile application can continue to work when not connected to the Internet.
  • Wizard like questionnaire for the contact tracers to follow.
  • Progress reports for the desktop management application.

 

Stretch Goal #2 Raise 100K! THE NEED FOR SPEED! This is more realistic for an application of this size done fast! At this level of funding we can utilize our network of highly skilled outside contractors. The previous goals are based on doing much of the work in-house at a discount. Although a much lower cost, doing this project entirely in-house means it will take longer to finish. Using freelance contractors means it will get done much faster but more expensive.

Help documentation, training videos and multiple language support. Not only will we need to teach people how to use the apps. We will also need to teach them how to do contact tracing and isolation support services. Health Departments are not in a position to scale their personnel resources so we will need to create the training content for them.

Risks and challenges

Creating applications for contact tracing and isolation management is not an overly complex problem. It lacks a long term business model so businesses will not step up to the challenge. When people stop getting infected, VirusTIM will run out of customers. This is why it is best as a community backed project. I am confident in our ability to create the mobile, desktop and cloud components. Once completed VirusTIM will be the solution to managing large teams of contact tracers and people in isolation. I am confident that this project will work, but I also understand and acknowledge that there are always risks and challenges to any project and this isn't different. Despite our planning and utmost execution efforts, I understand that there might be circumstances that are out of our control. If we are met with these, I promise to be transparent and communicate them to you!

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