The outbreak map dashboard created by Dr. Lauren Gardner, Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering, which is used to track the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, during a briefing from Johns Hopkins Universi Johns Hopkins University has ended its Coronavirus Resource Center (CRC), a hub full of real-time data that became a global go-to for monitoring the public health catastrophe.
The center officially shut down on Friday, March 10 – almost three years to the day after the World Health Organization first called COVID-19 a pandemic.
The CRC first displayed case numbers by country, a factor used by many when weighing travel advisories. Death tolls by country were also reported, followed by vaccination data.
The site provided the public, journalists, and policymakers across the nation and around the world with reliable, real-time information and expert analysis, Johns Hopkins said.As NPR reported, even the White House and the British prime minister were relying on Hopkins data.The site pulled in a staggering 2.5 billion views over its lifetime. "These are numbers I don't think I'll ever see again in my professional career," Beth Blaur, an associate vice provost at Johns Hopkins who has helped run the center, told NPR.