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Avi Schiffmann (born October 26, 2002) is an American web developer and internet activist. He is best known for creating one of the largest websites aggregating data on the spread of the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19.

Biography
Avi Schiffmann attended Mercer Island High School in Seattle, Washington. He studied at Harvard University, which he left at the age of 21.

In early January 2020, Avi Schiffmann launched the website, called nCoV2019.live. By the end of April 2020, over 600 million people had visited the website, which was receiving about 30 million visitors each day. He started learning to code at the age of seven, primarily by watching videos on YouTube. He was offered $8 million to publish ads on his site, which he declined.

In March 2022, he created a website, aided by his classmate, Marco Burstein and some volunteers (for translations) that connects Ukrainian refugees with hosts in neighboring countries. The website is translated into 12 languages.

Personal life
Of Jewish faith, Avi Schiffmann has a mother who is a physician, and a father who is a biologist.

Awards
For his work, Avi Schiffmann received the 2020 Person of the Year award at the Webby Awards.