Mapping COVID-19: Millions Rely On Online Tracker Of Cases Worldwide A small team at Johns Hopkins University early on created what's become one of the most authoritative interactive online dashboards, tracking COVID-19 data around the world.
The interactive, Web-based COVID-19 dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, as seen on Monday at 3:11 p.m. ET. Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University hide caption
For the latest COVID-19 statistics, updated in near real time, millions of people around the world have been turning to an interactive, Web-based dashboard created by a small team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
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From its humble beginnings, that dashboard has become one of the world's most authoritative sources for the latest coronavirus numbers and trends. The project has filled an information vacuum, providing the most up-to-date, comprehensive picture of the virus' global scope and spread.
We were sitting around a table. We were all drinking lattes, recalls Lauren Gardner, 35, associate professor of civil and systems engineering at Johns Hopkins.
This was back on Jan. 21. Gardner, whose specialty is modeling the spread of infectious diseases such as Zika, dengue and measles, had been paying close attention to early reports of a deadly new virus spreading in China.
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Lauren Gardner, associate professor of civil and systems engineering at Johns Hopkins University, manages the COVID-19 dashboard project for the university's Center for Systems Science and Engineering. Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University hide caption
Lauren Gardner, associate professor of civil and systems engineering at Johns Hopkins University, manages the COVID-19 dashboard project for the university's Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
At that meeting over coffee, she asked Ensheng Dong, a first-year Ph.D. student she advises, if he had been following news of the coronavirus. He had. Dong, 30, is from Shanxi province in China, and he knew there had been confirmed cases in his hometown.
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So, Dong got busy, and by that same night he had created a dashboard showing cases of the disease, COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus.
Back then, his map was splashed with just a smattering of red circles, indicating a grand total of 320 confirmed cases. Nearly all of them were in China; a handful more were in Thailand, Japan and South Korea.
Over the months that followed, as the epidemic turned into a pandemic and as the number of confirmed cases grew from several hundred to nearly 2 million, Dong watched those red circles on the map spread steadily and fast, all over the globe.
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In the first few weeks, Dong was entering all of the data by himself, manually plugging the numbers of confirmed cases, recoveries and deaths into the dashboard. That quickly turned into a monumental task. Now, nearly all of the data are entered automatically.
Ensheng Dong, a first-year Ph.D. student, helped create a dashboard showing cases of the disease, COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus. Lizao Zhang hide caption
For Gardner, who manages the dashboard project for Johns Hopkins' Center for Systems Science and Engineering, it's a role that has become all-consuming.
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I didn't envision being dashboard person — that's for sure, she says, noting that the dashboard she first envisioned as a valuable tool for academic research has evolved into something far bigger.
I think what we massively underestimated was the general public's interest, she says. It didn't even cross our mind how popular the interface would be. ... People are just really desperate for information that they trust.
The Hopkins team scrapes its numbers from dozens of sources, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China, as well as U.S. state health departments and media-aggregating websites.
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The dashboard team has grown from two members to a couple of dozen, and they're constantly working on new features. This week, they've added maps showing per capita rates of COVID-19 testing, hospitalization and incidence, as well as case-fatality ratios.
Gardner and her team work to maintain the COVID-19 dashboard, built by Gardner's team at the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University hide caption
Gardner and her team work to maintain the COVID-19 dashboard, built by Gardner's team at the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
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The Hopkins dashboard is open-source, made freely available to users. Thousands of other dashboards, including 's, pull the Hopkins data into their own. And I think that's awesome, Gardner says.
Beyond the snapshot of what is happening now, the data are also being used to do modeling, which in turn drives state and federal policy. We're absolutely doing short-term forecasting, Gardner says, looking at what are the next spatial hot spots. Where should we be allocating resources to better prepare for the next city or the next state that's gonna see a surge in cases?
The Hopkins team also recently joined in a study from NASA, modeling how climate and seasonality are contributing to the coronavirus outbreak.
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As the dashboard project goes on, Dong says what began with him worrying about his family in China has flipped. With the U.S. now bearing the brutal brunt of the pandemic, he says, it's his family's turn to worry about him.
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SAN ANTONIO – An interactive dashboard shows real-time data of confirmed cases and deaths related to COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus.
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Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering created a map that provides the most accurate international tracking of the outbreak.
The primary source of data for the map is DXY, “an online platform run by members of the Chinese medical community, which aggregates local media and government reports to provide COVID-19 cumulative case totals, ” according to a Johns Hopkins blog post. (A full list of data sources for the map can be found here.)
As the map notes, it “relies upon publicly available data from multiple sources, that do not always agree.” The map creators are confirming case numbers with regional and local health departments before they update the map.
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COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new virus, stands for coronavirus disease 2019. The disease first appeared in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, but spread around the world in early 2020, causing the World Health Organization to declare a pandemic in March.
As the number of COVID-19 cases grows across the country, federal officials are working with state and local officials to make testing more accessible.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that gatherings of 50 people or more should be canceled for the next eight weeks and the Texas Education Commissioner said schools could be out through the duration of the school year.
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