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    ‘A new standard’: The woman behind the Johns Hopkins COVID dashboard wins major prize

    In the beginning it was a lifeline, an organized collection of facts amid a swirl of coronavirus uncertainty and misinformation. “Feels like this is going to be another day where it’s a battle to do anything while staring at the Johns Hopkins dashboard,” an editor in Michigan tweeted on April 13, 2020, along with a screenshot of the global death toll to date at that time: 114,983. Nearly 2 1/2 ...
    by Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times Sep 28, 2022 2 minutes
    Johns Hopkins professor Lauren Gardner was recognized with the Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award for mobilizing her lab to engineer the COVID-19 dashboard.

    In the beginning it was a lifeline, an organized collection of facts amid a swirl of coronavirus uncertainty and misinformation.

    “Feels like this is going to be another day where it’s a battle to do anything while staring at the Johns Hopkins dashboard,” an editor in Michigan tweeted on April 13, 2020, along with a screenshot of the global death toll to date at that time: 114,983.

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