Should mayors close schools? Should governors mandate masks? Should CEOs shut down factories? Should heads of state seal borders?īut there was no good data available to make those decisions. Those decisions included where to impose dramatic but crucial public health measures. "And when we started to see the cases move out of China and in through Europe and headed toward our shores, we knew that there were going to be a series of public policy decisions that would have to be made," Blauer says. "As everyone can remember, there was very little information, particularly at the beginning of the pandemic," says Beth Blauer, an associate vice provost at Johns Hopkins who has helped run the center. Was it safe to go grocery shopping? How easily could someone get infected on a bus or train? Could runners get sick just by passing another jogger in the park?
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When the pandemic erupted, no one knew much of anything about the virus and how to respond. "But it's an appropriate time to move on." "It's bittersweet," says Lauren Gardner, an engineering professor who launched the project with one of her students on March 3, 2020. The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center plans to cease operations March 10, officials told NPR.
In another sign of the changing state of the pandemic, an invaluable source of information about the virus over the last three years is shutting down, NPR has learned. The COVID-19 dashboard created by the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering is displayed during a briefing on Capitol Hill in early March 2020, when only 245 confirmed cases had been reported in the U.S.
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