While most high school students are steadily making their way through their respective Netflix queues or playing video games during their self-isolation, one 17-year-old is managing a website that is keeping millions updated on the worldwide spread of COVID-19.

Avi Schiffmann, a high school junior from Washington state, launched ncov2019.live on December 29th, when the Coronavirus was still predominantly relegated to mainland China. The website has since garnered over 100 million visitors.

Rex Chapman shared a video from Bloomberg’s QuickTake seriesfeaturing Schiffman and his amazing efforts:

This young man is Avi Schiffmann. He’s just 17. But he built a site that tracks Coronavirus numbers.

He was offered $8m to place ads on the site.

He turned it down. Not all heroes wear capes.�❤️pic.twitter.com/rinMT5N2Pn

— Rex Chapman�� (@RexChapman) April 7, 2020

“My goal is to make the site the best place for information about the coronavirus, with multiple methods of getting data,” Schiffmann told Geekwire. “When I first started I was viewing the whole epidemic as an outsider, and I never expected it to personally affect me,” he said, adding that the growing number of cases and deaths in the Seattle area are concerning.


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Him for take am as side hustle.

Damm holy shitt. No nigerian will reject that offer.

donbachi:
Him for take am as side hustle.

You think say na everybody like money like you?

Na wa oooo

Money, truly isn't everything.

donbachi:
Him for take am as side hustle.

He said he does want such money, else he will not further is Secondary school again or the money won't let him learn further and such money will retire him and he is not ready to rretire @17.

Ok ooooh

What heroic action did he take? Advert that u would just put one place and place a remove button for people that don't want to see it. One opportunity to blow u miss. Thank ur God that things are working fine in that country.

He rejected the offer in order not drop out of school and retire from learning.

Move to frontpage for young people to learnt that everything is not money, live first. He also don't wanna make money from people suffering .

@Lalasticlala move to front page

Nawa o. What is heroic about such a misstep

Dey there dey track COVIK ONE-NINE na.


Something's not adding up though: this guy's parents may be millionaires or something.

I dey find 10k to use buy foodstuff before this impending lockdown reach here, and one Jewish ozwor dey decline $8m.

DanseMacabre:
Nawa o. What is heroic about such a misstep

Dey there dey track COVIK ONE-NINE na.


Something's not adding up though: this guy's parents may be millionaires or something.

I dey find 10k to use buy foodstuff before this impending lockdown reach here, and one Jewish ozwor dey decline $8m.

Go create your own website make them offer you your own na. Shuu! Na you get him declining spirit?

Humanoid01:

Go create your own website make them offer you your own na. Shuu! Na you get him declining spirit?

Abeg comot 4 there. If na you, you go reject am?

BlackboiNero:
Abeg comot 4 there. If na you, you go reject am?

Lol boss, na play I dey o. Who in his right senses in a country like Nigeria, especially under this lockdown, will receive an offer like that and reject it?

Humanoid01:

Lol boss, na play I dey o. Who in his right senses in a country like Nigeria, especially under this lockdown, will receive an offer like that and reject it?

Shuo I for fear you o