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Covid-19 vs Lexigram

If you need a Health API that's easy to integrate, go with Covid-19.

Covid-19

Covid 19 cases, deaths and recovery per country

Lexigram

NLP that extracts mentions of clinical concepts from text, gives access to clinical ontology

Covid-19

  • No authentication required
  • HTTPS supported
  • CORS enabled for frontend use

Lexigram

  • Simple API key authentication
  • HTTPS supported
FeatureCovid-19Lexigram
AuthenticationNoneapiKey
HTTPSYesYes
CORSYesUnknown

When to use which?

Covid-19 is the better choice for quick prototypes and hackathons since it requires no authentication. Covid-19 works directly from the browser with CORS enabled, making it better for frontend-only apps.