The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center Closes COVID Tracker

The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center plans to cease operations March 10, officials told NPR. "It's bittersweet," says Lauren Gardner, an engineering professor who launched the project with one of her students on March 3, 2020. "But it's an appropriate time to move on." When the pandemic erupted, no one knew much of anything about the virus and how to respond. After Johns Hopkins launched the project, the website quickly became crucial and even the White House and the British prime minister were relying on Hopkins data. Now that the threat of the pandemic is receding, states are reporting data less frequently and CDC has ramped up the agency's data reporting, the university decided it was time to shut it down. Read more from NPR here.