Johns Hopkins University/Covid dashboard

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Start22 January 2020
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On January 22, 2020, only 23 days after China reported that they had found a handful of cases of an "unknown pneumonia" in the city of Wuhan and three months after Event 201, three people connected with the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering at John Hopkins "on the spur of the moment" launched a dashboard that was designed to track the number of cases and deaths of this disease in every country in the world.

Despite this hasty beginning, the new website garnered a lot of attention in short order, rapidly becoming the premier data site for media outlets, medical researchers, health authorities, and the general public in the US and around the world.[1][2] Within two months of its launch, the website was reportedly being accessed 1.2 billion times per day.[3] The dashboard most likely used a mix of computer modelling and numbers gathered from the internet, and not actual figures[4][5]


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