Thoughts on this: COVID in reverse is "DIVOC" What is Divoc?

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Divoc is a term derived from the Hebrew word ‘dybbuk’, which is an evil spirit capable of possessing other creatures, and it’s believed to be the suffering soul of the dead. The dybbuk is the soul of an evil person who’s soul wants to evade the punishment and tries to stay on this dimension by possessing another body. https://www.definitions.net/definition/divoc

Newsweek published a "fact" check article, of course, debunking it: https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-divoc-covid-hebrew-yiddish-1623317

But consider this:

There are a few entities named Divoc - and they are surprisingly (or not) related to COVID. Examples include:

1) Divoc India: https://divoc.egov.org.in

The Digital Infrastructure for Vaccination Open Credentialing or DIVOC is an open-source platform that enables countries to digitally orchestrate large-scale health campaigns such as vaccination and certification programs.

2) DIvoc Laboratory https://divoc.health

DIVOC Health was incepted by Dr. Kanav Kahol in collaboration with Lions Head Global Partners. DIVOC Health has developed a state-of-the-art medical diagnostic laboratory and is responsible for bringing digital innovations into the laboratory segment via its centers in New Delhi and Ghaziabad. We are presently working to develop a hospital dedicated to infectious diseases along with a vaccination center in Delhi-NCR. This hospital will specialize in treating patients with COVID-19 and will further help in building the Patient-DIVOC bond. This specialized hospital will also be a center for genetic profiling of new infections and will work in partnership with prominent groups such as Oxford Nanopore Technologies. We are also introducing at-home diagnostics which would allow phlebotomists to conduct testing and deliver results instantly at the doorstep of the customers. This innovation will enable a new generation of medicine where your operations can extend into peoples’ homes and the diagnostic continuum can empower a truly connected and omnipresent vision of health.

3) 91-Divoc project https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/overview.html

One thing that has impressed me the most is the vast amount of high-quality, organized data around COVID-19. One of the leaders since the early days of COVID-19 has been John Hopkins’ Center for Systems Science and Engineering. As part of making an incredible visual map of the outbreak, they open-sourced all of their data collection on GitHub.

While exploring this dataset, I wanted to find what others have created. There were a lot of maps similar to John Hopkins that displayed the number of active cases as a “heat map”. This is informative, but they did not provide any direct insight on how the situation was evolving right now.

The visualization that inspired me the most was one I found created by John Burn-Murdoch that overlapped the number of cases in various countries based on the day when each country had the their 100th person infected. I love it!

However, they were just images. I loved it, but I cannot nerd out with the data and understand the growth and answer my own questions. This motivated the creation of DIVOC-91. Having cancelled my plans to travel over Spring Break at The University of Illinois (where I am privileged to be a professor of Computer Science), I used the Johns Hopkins dataset along with a visualization library called d3.js, to create an interactive visualization that allows a user to mouseover any point to explore the data, change the scale for logarithmic (better at showing exponentially increasing data) to linear (better at showing the human impact), and change what country is highlighted.

Since the launch in March, this visualization has evolved with a community of amazing people across social media. Recent changes are detailed in the change log and the visualization really has evolved into a powerful tool to nerd out with data.

Have I lost my marbles? Does anyone else think is strange?

>Divoc is a term derived from the Hebrew word ‘dybbuk’, which is an evil spirit capable of possessing other creatures, and it’s believed to be the suffering soul of the dead. The dybbuk is the soul of an evil person who’s soul wants to evade the punishment and tries to stay on this dimension by possessing another body. https://www.definitions.net/definition/divoc Newsweek published a "fact" check article, of course, debunking it: https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-divoc-covid-hebrew-yiddish-1623317 But consider this: There are a few entities named Divoc - and they are surprisingly (or not) related to COVID. Examples include: 1) Divoc India: https://divoc.egov.org.in >The Digital Infrastructure for Vaccination Open Credentialing or DIVOC is an open-source platform that enables countries to digitally orchestrate large-scale health campaigns such as vaccination and certification programs. 2) DIvoc Laboratory https://divoc.health >DIVOC Health was incepted by Dr. Kanav Kahol in collaboration with Lions Head Global Partners. DIVOC Health has developed a state-of-the-art medical diagnostic laboratory and is responsible for bringing digital innovations into the laboratory segment via its centers in New Delhi and Ghaziabad. We are presently working to develop a hospital dedicated to infectious diseases along with a vaccination center in Delhi-NCR. This hospital will specialize in treating patients with COVID-19 and will further help in building the Patient-DIVOC bond. This specialized hospital will also be a center for genetic profiling of new infections and will work in partnership with prominent groups such as Oxford Nanopore Technologies. We are also introducing at-home diagnostics which would allow phlebotomists to conduct testing and deliver results instantly at the doorstep of the customers. This innovation will enable a new generation of medicine where your operations can extend into peoples’ homes and the diagnostic continuum can empower a truly connected and omnipresent vision of health. 3) 91-Divoc project https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/overview.html >One thing that has impressed me the most is the vast amount of high-quality, organized data around COVID-19. One of the leaders since the early days of COVID-19 has been John Hopkins’ Center for Systems Science and Engineering. As part of making an incredible visual map of the outbreak, they open-sourced all of their data collection on GitHub. >While exploring this dataset, I wanted to find what others have created. There were a lot of maps similar to John Hopkins that displayed the number of active cases as a “heat map”. This is informative, but they did not provide any direct insight on how the situation was evolving right now. >The visualization that inspired me the most was one I found created by John Burn-Murdoch that overlapped the number of cases in various countries based on the day when each country had the their 100th person infected. I love it! >However, they were just images. I loved it, but I cannot nerd out with the data and understand the growth and answer my own questions. This motivated the creation of DIVOC-91. Having cancelled my plans to travel over Spring Break at The University of Illinois (where I am privileged to be a professor of Computer Science), I used the Johns Hopkins dataset along with a visualization library called d3.js, to create an interactive visualization that allows a user to mouseover any point to explore the data, change the scale for logarithmic (better at showing exponentially increasing data) to linear (better at showing the human impact), and change what country is highlighted. >Since the launch in March, this visualization has evolved with a community of amazing people across social media. Recent changes are detailed in the change log and the visualization really has evolved into a powerful tool to nerd out with data. Have I lost my marbles? Does anyone else think is strange?

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