Considering the effectiveness of vaccination in significantly reducing the fatality rate of COVID-19, and the resumption of most daily activities, we have observed a decrease in the general interest of the population in following daily forecasts regarding the numbers of the disease.

For this reason, and given the involvement of the team's researchers in other projects, we decided to end forecast updates in the CovidLP app from July/2022. We are very pleased with all the products resulting from this excellent partnership between students and teachers, and we are confident that we have fulfilled our role as scientists for the last two years.

As of today, another tab with a new functionality is available in the app to follow the Evolution of Long-Term Predictions made by our team throughout the pandemic.

To view the animation, simply select the desired start date and click the play button. You can pause the animation at any time, as well as use the bar to select a specific date.

The graphs show the predictions that have been published weekly by our app, from the beginning of 2021 to the most recent forecast. The vertical red and green bars indicate the estimated credibility intervals for the peak and end of 99% of the cases, respectively. Point estimates for peak dates, end of 99% of cases, and also for the total number of cases or deaths, are  highlighted in the legend in the upper left corner of the graphs.

Due to the interruption of updates of COVID data from the Ministry of Health since mid-December 2021, data visualization and new predictions for Brazil and its states are currently suspended in our app.

As this outage is in the official government data source, other organizations responsible for data compilation are also having new updates compromised. For this reason, the CovidLP team is waiting for the normalization of official systems to resume forecasts as soon as possible.

The presentation video of the book "Building a Platform for Data-Driven Pandemic Prediction: From Data Modeling to Visualization - The CovidLP Project", produced by Débora Magalhães and Izabel Nolau, members of the project, was published on the YouTube channel of CRC Press publishing group "Taylor & Francis Books".

Watch the video below. For more information about the book, go to: https://bit.ly/3aVVNs2