Covid Act Now

What Covid Act Now does

Covid Act Now is the COVID-focused U.S. initiative of Act Now Coalition, an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded by volunteers in March 2020 and launched in April 2020. The initiative provides timely and accurate COVID-19 data to help individuals make informed health decisions and to support data-driven public health responses. Since launch it has served tens of millions of users and built a subscriber base of more than 250,000 individuals receiving COVID news and alerts, while also engaging directly with hundreds of federal, state, and county officials and a set of multinational corporations and NGOs.

The platform's core product is the U.S. COVID Tracker, which delivers comprehensive data on cases, hospitalizations, deaths, ICU admissions, positivity rates, and vaccinations across all U.S. states, 380+ metros, 3,100+ counties, and two U.S. territories, with data search, mapping, trend, and comparison interfaces. The underlying data assessment model is backed by academic partnerships with Georgetown University (Center for Global Health Science and Security), Stanford Medicine Clinical Excellence Research Center, and Harvard Global Health Institute, and the platform has integrated local health district wastewater surveillance data into its tracking. Institutional funders include Schmidt Futures and the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation.

Covid Act Now operates a nonprofit funding model with no commercial revenue stream and provides its service free to the public. Go-to-market combines direct-to-consumer access via covidactnow.org and email alerts with direct engagement of government officials and enterprises for data-driven COVID response support. As of May 16, 2024, weekly data updates have been paused due to limited data availability and the site is maintained for archival and historical reference purposes, with users directed to the CDC and local health districts for current COVID data.

Name

Covid Act Now

Legal name

CoVidActNow.org

Website

https://covidactnow.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Covid Act Now, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit initiative launched April 2020, operated a free U.S. COVID data platform covering every state, 380+ metros, and 3,100+ counties for tens of millions of consumers, government officials, and enterprises; weekly updates paused May 2024 and the site is now archival.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Health Data Analytics

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374)

akta.pro primary industry

Syndromic Surveillance & Early Warning Systems (HLAJABAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Syndromic & Event-Based Surveillance (HLAJANAC), Immunization & Vaccination Programs Administration (BPAIAJAD), Vaccine-Preventable Disease Surveillance & Coverage Monitoring (HLAJABAK)

Keywords

• Public health data
• COVID-19 tracking
• Pandemic data analytics
• Epidemic monitoring platform
• Nonprofit health initiative

Headquarters

HQ city

Covina

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Nonprofit Operations: Covid Act Now is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Funding comes from institutional funders including Schmidt Futures and Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. No commercial revenue model is disclosed.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Covid Act Now operates a U.S. COVID-19 data tracking platform that aggregates cases, hospitalizations, deaths, ICU admissions, positivity rates, and vaccinations across every state, 380+ metros, 3,100+ counties, and two U.S. territories. The platform provides free public access via its website, an email alerts service for 250k+ subscribers, and data-driven COVID response support for government officials, multinational corporations, and NGOs. As of May 16, 2024 weekly updates were paused and the site is maintained for archival purposes.

Product overview

Covid Act Now is a single-purpose COVID-19 data platform operated by the Act Now Coalition 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The primary offering is the U.S. COVID Tracker, which provides comprehensive COVID-19 data including cases, hospitalizations, deaths, ICU capacity, positivity rates, and vaccination data across all U.S. states, 380+ metros, and 3,100+ counties. The platform supports consumer users with alert subscriptions and has also served federal, state, and county officials as well as multinational corporations and NGOs with data-driven COVID response support. The site is currently maintained for archival purposes only, with weekly updates paused since May 2024 due to limited data availability.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• U.S. COVID Tracker A comprehensive COVID-19 data tracking platform providing real-time and historical data on cases, hospitalizations, deaths, ICU admissions, positivity rates, and vaccinations across U.S. states, metros, counties, and territories. Features include data search, mapping, trend analysis, and comparative views for individuals, government officials, and organizations.
• Covid Act Now Alerts An email notification subscription service keeping over 250,000 subscribers updated on COVID news and alerts, enabling individuals to make informed decisions based on timely and accurate data.

Quantifiable outcome

• Tens of millions of users served since pandemic began
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Georgetown University (GHSS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partner providing expertise in health security and surveillance. The Georgetown University Center for Global Health Science and Security contributes to Covid Act Now's data assessment methodology and public health expertise.
• Stanford Medicine Clinical Excellence Research CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partner providing clinical excellence research expertise to support Covid Act Now's COVID data assessment and modeling capabilities.
• Harvard Global Health InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partner providing global health expertise to enhance Covid Act Now's COVID tracking and data assessment methodology.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Emerging players

• Biobot Analytics: Commercial wastewater epidemiology company that became a leading provider of community-level COVID wastewater surveillance data — the same leading-indicator dataset Covid Act Now integrated. Comparable overlap on wastewater signals and public health customer base (municipalities, health departments).

Direct peers

• Our World in Data: University of Oxford–affiliated nonprofit publishing global COVID-19 case, death, hospitalization, vaccination, and testing data with public-good intent. Comparable as a free, academic-credibility, open-access COVID (and broader health) data platform.
• The COVID Tracking Project: Volunteer-built, nonprofit COVID data dashboard led by The Atlantic that aggregated state-level testing, hospitalization, and case data. Closely analogous in origin (volunteers), model (nonprofit), and shutdown trajectory (ceased operations March 2021).
• Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center: Operated a near-identical U.S. COVID-19 dashboard (cases, hospitalizations, deaths, vaccinations) by a top academic institution, and similarly paused operations in 2023 as the crisis waned. Most directly comparable peer in mission, audience, and lifecycle.
• COVID Exit Strategy: Independent dashboard that synthesized state-level COVID metrics into advisory 'stop/start' assessments, conceptually similar to Covid Act Now's risk-level scoring. A directly comparable nonprofit peer serving policymakers and the public.
• rt.live: Real-time Rt (effective reproduction number) tracker built during the pandemic by a team of technologists. Directly comparable as an independent, technical, COVID-specific modeling platform that has since wound down.

Broad incumbents

• HealthData.gov: U.S. government open-data portal hosting federal, state, and local public health datasets including COVID-19 case, hospitalization, and vaccination data. The structural incumbent that aggregates and hosts much of the underlying source data Covid Act Now relied upon.
• Apple COVID-19 Mobility Trends: Apple's anonymized mobility data release used as a proxy for pandemic-era social-distancing behavior by governments, researchers, and media. Comparable as a complementary, large-scale COVID-era public health data signal that has now been archived.
• CDC COVID Data Tracker: The authoritative federal U.S. COVID surveillance dashboard from the CDC, covering cases, hospitalizations, deaths, vaccinations, and wastewater at state/county granularity. Operates as the incumbent public-health alternative to Covid Act Now and continues to be updated.

Others

• Walgreens COVID-19 Index: Retail pharmacy chain that published proprietary weekly COVID test positivity and variant tracking based on its in-store testing footprint. Comparable as an alternative near-real-time COVID indicator relied on by public health officials and media.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles27 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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