Our Breakthrough

Mapping COVID-19 County by County

Precision modeling tool forecasts the spread of COVID-19 across more than 500 U.S. counties

COVID-19 by county

Our Challenge

A Rapidly Spreading Disease

Data models inform public policy solutions to the COVID-19 crisis. Other models predict the spread of disease over large areas, overlooking local area effects that impact transmission rates.

Our Solution

A Precision Approach

CHOP PolicyLab Director, David Rubin, MD, MSCE, and colleagues develop a reliable data-based model that accounts for variables such as population, geography and temperature. The model provides insight on how a community’s current social distancing practices will affect the virus’s spread.

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Chart: Social Distancing over time

Our Impact

A Road Forward

Updated in real-time and closely watched by government and industry leadership, CHOP’s model offers a blueprint for a safe, measured reopening.

Mapping COVID-19

Our Team

Thought Leaders in Practice and Policy

PolicyLab’s thought leaders research, develop and implement evidence-based policy solutions for children and families.

David Rubin, MD, MSCE

Attending Physician; Director, PolicyLab; Director, Population Health Innovation

Gregory Tasian, MD, MSc, MSCE

Attending Pediatric Urologist, Division of Urology
Faculty Member, PolicyLab

Jing Huang, PhD

Faculty Member, PolicyLab; Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Moving Ahead

Taking Action

Our PolicyLab team continues to engage local and federal leaders to inform a safe reopening approach that accounts for the economic and social impacts shelter-in-place strategies have on low-income communities.

During the first week of our COVID-19 response, CHOP providers conducted more telemedicine visits than in the previous three years combined. We are now providing more than 2,000 telemedicine visits each day.

Sharing Our COVID-19 Expertise

CHOP’s experts are discussing the most pressing COVID-19-related topics with news media across the country.
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Help Us Find Solutions

We find real-world, scalable solutions to seemingly intractable problems. Led by the greatest minds in medicine, and with support from our generous donors, our world-renowned teams are taking on the toughest diseases the world has ever seen – and winning.


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