Johns Hopkins University Launches New, U.S.-specific COVID-19 Tracking Map and Categorical Updates to Complement JHU's Global COVID-19 Map

Critical County- and State-Level Data Now Available

Media Webinar with Johns Hopkins Experts to Demonstrate New Map Features

     
     WHAT:    Johns Hopkins experts showcase new, U.S.-specific
                  COVID-19 map with comprehensive county-level
                  audit of COVID-19 impact, key public health
                  metrics





     
     WHEN:  
     Tuesday, April 14, 2020


               
     11:30 AM EST - 12:00 PM EST




        WHERE: 
     Via Zoom


                 RSVP to JHUNews@jhu.edu for link and password





     
     WHO:     BETH BLAUER, Executive Director, Johns Hopkins
                  University Centers for Civic Impact




                 TAMARA GOYEA, Senior Data Scientist, Johns Hopkins
                  University Applied Physics Laboratory




                 JENNIFER NUZZO, Senior Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center
                  for Health Security

About the Map

Today, Johns Hopkins launched its newest COVID-19 U.S. map as a resource for media, policymakers and communities to view a collection of critical public health data in one online destination and better understand and track the COVID-19 pandemic in populations both large and small across the country.

The new U.S. map provides the following information to better highlight the spread and impact of COVID-19 and provide contextual data on a county level:

    --  Density of the outbreak and its effect on counties
    --  Localized stay-at-home policies and effective date
    --  County-level confirmed cases and deaths compared to the state levels of
        each
    --  State-level testing data
    --  Race and ethnicity data for each county
    --  Poverty rate for each county
    --  Health insurance by type for each county
    --  Number of residents per county in the highest risk age category 65+
    --  Hospital capacity data, baselines of licensed beds, staffed beds, and
        ICU beds

Johns Hopkins' goal is to make this data as publicly and widely available as possible. Experts will be available to the media during a webinar on TUESDAY, APRIL 14 at 11:30 AM EST.

The U.S. map is a new resource to complement the COVID-19 Global Tracking Map, which was first released publicly by JHU's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) in January and has served as a valuable resource to track the novel coronavirus outbreak as it unfolds around the world. CSSE has also added new functionality to its global map to reflect U.S. testing and hospitalization rates on a state level, incidence and mortality rates on a global level, and US state case curves.

The development of the new U.S. map is a collaborative effort led by the Johns Hopkins Centers for Civic Impact, with participation from the Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Whiting School of Engineering. Technical support is provided by ESRI and the JHU Sheridan Libraries.

/PRNewswire/ -- April 13, 2020/

SOURCE Johns Hopkins University