COVID-19 - CoronaVirus for Chrome

COVID-19 - CoronaVirus for Chrome is a useful extension that allows you to get a relatively accurate view of the whole COVID-19 outbreak situation.

Before anything else, it’s important to note that the extension brings the interactive web-based dashboard for COVID-19 tracking in real-time into your Chrome’s toolbar. The dashboard and all its data, mappings, and analysis are provided strictly for educational and academic research purposes by the John Hopkins University.

The extension displays data via a grey-themed GUI and 4 main sections, namely Totals, Plots, Data, and Confirmed. The first section provides you with the total number of cases worldwide, the number of deaths, and the number of cases with successful recoveries.

The Plots section provides some very accurate graph representations of the outbreak’s evolution and the actual trend considering the total number of recoveries, and the number of cases in mainland China and other locations.

You can view the total number of confirmed cases per country/region in the third section of the extension. Here, you can see which countries are the most affected and get a good idea about the evolution of the virus via a graph with two variables: “new confirmed” and “new recovered.”

Because numbers only go so far when it comes to actually giving us an idea of the magnitude of the spread, the Confirmed section is where you can actually view all the affected areas around the globe. Interestingly enough, you can even change the basemap model and get a clear idea of the representations on the said map thanks to the Legend menu.

While the situation is definitely somewhat bleak in some places around the world right now, it’s still important to do as much as we can as individuals to help contain the spread. It’s also worth being grateful for all the available technology around us as it helps us stay more connected and, at least in theory, very informed.

That said, COVID-19 - CoronaVirus for Chrome does a good job of providing you with various points of view for the whole outbreak situation. On one hand, it displays all the raw data you may be curious about, but it also provides a real-time map with all the cumulative confirmed cases.