key: cord-0898033-5t0zdiin
authors: Takefuji, Yoshiyasu
title: SCORECOVID: A Python Package Index for scoring the individual policies against COVID-19
date: 2021-09-23
journal: Healthcare Analytics
DOI: 10.1016/j.health.2021.100005
sha: e10d364c2f629bfd2080b9308f6b76c076254385
doc_id: 898033
cord_uid: 5t0zdiin

This study proposes SCORECOVID, a new Python Package Index (PyPI) for scoring individual policies against covid-19 and mitigating the pandemic. The new PyPI package consists of two modules. The first module automatically scrapes the latest information on the number of deaths and population by COVID-19 to score individual policies for a given country. The second module calculates the score by dividing the number of deaths by the population in millions. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US estimates the economic value of a statistical life to be $9.5 million per individual. The higher the number of deaths, the greater the economic loss. To use the best policies to reduce the number of deaths, we should adopt measures and methods from exceptional countries with high scores. The proposed method reveals two groups: a high-scored group and a low-scored group. The number of deaths is an indicator of economic and health policy scores. SCORECOVID is the world’s first open-source policy scoring tool for COVID-19. It is designed to help many countries utilize state-of-the-art analytics methods to effectively mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic.

There are many package managers for installing open-source software codes [1] .

The largest package manager in the world is npm managing 1.85M packages. npm is a package manager for the JavaScript programming language. npm, npm is the default package manager for the JavaScript runtime environment Node.js.

The second largest package manager is Maven managing 418K packages [2] .

Maven is a build automation tool used primarily for Java projects. Maven can also be used to build and manage projects written in C#, Ruby, Scala, and other languages. The Maven project is hosted by the Apache Software Foundation.

The third package manager is Go managing 382K packages [3] . Go is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google. Go is syntactically similar to C, but with memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP-style concurrency.

Many developers are always wondering what is the best programming language to develop their products in terms of cost, reusability, development time, security, durability, maintenance, future prospects, and many other factors. Determining which programming language is the "most widely used" is difficult because its meaning varies from context to context. Therefore, two indicators are often used to measure the popularity of a programming language: PYPL [4] Scoring the performance of individual policies is calculated by dividing the number of deaths due to the covid-19 by the population in millions [8] . The conventional algorithms use the number of infected cases [11, 12, 13] . The economic value of a statistical life (VSL) varies from country to country, but the FCC estimates it at $9.5 million per person [9] . In Japan, the VSL is from 217 million yen to 264 million [10] .

The existing algorithms based on dataset analysis for scoring individual policies

can only indicate the spread of COVID-19 with infected cases but they cannot indicate the effectiveness of the policies. A dataset is composed of instances with necessary parameters. The fatal drawback of the existing algorithms lies in that if the necessary parameters are lacking an important feature or a parameter, they cannot measure policy performance. The existing algorithms do not have a way to measure how well policies are implemented or enforced, nor do they measure the degree of compliance with official policies [11] .

The Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) collects systematic information on policy measures that governments have taken to tackle COVID-19 [11] . Although OxCGRT covers more than 180 countries and are coded into 23 indicators or features, it lacks a key indicator, "digital fences" [8] . In data science 

While the conventional scoring policies [11, 12, 13] is based on the number of daily The conventional scoring policies [11, 12, 13] failed in lacking a key indicator, "digital fences". Until the vaccine was available, many countries except countries using digital fences did not use any effective policy against COVID-19.

Digital fences play a key role in mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic [8.14,15] as long as infection testing is available. The stronger the digital fence, the more effective the policy will be against COVID-19 [8, 14, 15] . with open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf-8") as fh: long_description = fh.read() setuptools.setup( name="scorecovid", version="0.0.6", author="yoshiyasu takefuji", author_email="takefuji@keio.jp", description="A package for scoring policies of covid-19", long_description=long_description, long_description_content_type="text/markdown", url="https://github.com/ytakefuji/score-covid-19-policy", project_urls={ "Bug Tracker": "https://github.com/ytakefuji/score-covid-19-policy", }, classifiers=[ "Programming Language :: Python :: 3", "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License", "Operating System :: OS Independent", ], package_dir={"": "src"}, py_modules=['scorecovid'], packages=setuptools.find_packages(where="src"), python_requires=">=3. 6 

For PyPI packaging, the necessary procedures are composed of seven steps

Create a new github repository and make a README.md

Create dist directory and build directory using setup

2. maven, the maintainers of Maven Central Repository http://maven.org/ 3. go, go.dev is the hub for Go users providing centralized and curated resources from across the

How Can Japanese Extended Longevity Be Evaluated?

A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker)

Keeping governments accountable: the COVID-19 Assessment Scorecard (COVID-SCORE)

COVID-SCORE: A global survey to assess public perceptions of government responses to COVID-19 (COVID-SCORE-10)

Taiwan's experience in fighting COVID-19

Contact-tracing apps help reduce COVID infections, data suggest

$ pip install scorecovid pip is a PyPI package manager command for installation.Type the following command to run scorecovid, the result will be shown on the screen: J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f