One of the big public health stories last week was that Johns Hopkins University, which has been operating one of the best COVID-19 tracking projects in the country since the pandemic hit U.S. shores, has announced that they're shutting it down next month:
When the pandemic hit, the federal government struggled to publish snapshots of the virus’ spread.
So, academics and journalists quickly filled the void, creating new tools with near real-time estimates of the unfolding pandemic.
Since January 2020, Johns Hopkins University has operated one of the most prominent resources for tracking covid-19 case counts and deaths across the world.
