Instagram’s cofounders built a website to track state-by-state spread of COVID-19

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Using data from the Covid Tracking Project, the cofounders of Instagram created a website to track the state-by-state spread of COVID-19 in the US, Bloomberg News reported.The website, RT.live, uses a statistic known in epidemiology as the effective reproduction number. It tracks the average number of people who catch the virus from one infected person.
“We’re trying to take what is a complex topic and boil it down to a simple number that