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Guillaume Rozier, born tracker

2021-02-19T23:19:20.799Z


PORTRAIT - At 24, the man who invented the CovidTracker application in March 2020 was the first to translate the progression of the epidemic into graphs.


As comfortable in front of a camera as behind a screen, Guillaume Rozier is essential on TV sets.

Curves and graphs in support, he comments on the evolution of the Covid-19 epidemic in France, the distribution of cases by region, the progress of the vaccination campaign.

Its CovidTracker.fr site is a reference in all French newsrooms.

This sudden celebrity did not turn the shapely head of the young man.

Guillaume Rozier, 24 years old

"not 25, I will have them in April!"

was the first to translate the progression of the epidemic into graphs, starting in March.

"

I should have been on an internship in a bank in Luxembourg, but I couldn't go… so, rather than watching series on Netflix, while teleworking, I started to aggregate data relating to the pandemic ”

, he relates.

Posted at the end of March, CovidTracker.fr now attracts 1.3 million unique visitors, for 50 to 60 million page views per month.

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How the highly-followed CovidTracker site was born

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Source: lefigaro

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