Data interpretation leading to image processing: a hybrid perspective to a global pandemic, COVID-19

When coronavirus hit, it caught mankind at the disadvantage of ignorance to its influence, and before the knowledge was realized the world was hit with another pandemic. After having overcome epidemics unheard of, the challenge lies in facing yet an added virus that poses a threat to the human species, the coronavirus disease, also known as COVID-19 [World Health Organization]. From the first established case of coronavirus in China found in the city of Wuhan to the first recorded coronavirus death, everyone has been looking for ways to tackle it. So let us take a look at how to deal with something that has the advantage of confining people to their homes and promises to be there for another decade or so and how to use the data that it gives as an advantage. This chapter will be taking a walk through the build and shift of COVID-19, then statistically measure its movement using data analysis and processing, assess its guise via image processing, and then go over some effective perspectives to keep this virus in check. Now, there is so much of COVID-19 data around, surmounting the ability to fathom it, so let us try and manipulate this data to find methods to nip it at the bud.