Lauren Gardner of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, with her group’s COVID-19 global dashboard By Jocelyn KaiserScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.Many websites track the devastating spread of disease and death caused by the now-pandemic coronavirus, from the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) global map to The New York Times’s tally of U.S.
cases at the county level. But one of the earliest, an online dashboard run by Johns Hopkins University, has become the go-to place for the latest data on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).With its black world map strewn with red circles and global, country, and state counts of cases, deaths, and recoveries, the Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases tracker sticks to the