The Sci'more Podcast

Ep2. Mapping Our Past, Present, and Future With the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Dashboard


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From the early stages of the pandemic, the world has looked to the COVID-19 dashboard produced by Johns Hopkins University as a guide for tracking the spread of the novel coronavirus. Maps have always been important to epidemiology and the containment of contagious disease, but the JHU dashboard has been lauded for its accessibility and accuracy, with Time Magazine naming it as one of the best inventions of 2020. But, where does the data presented by the dashboard come from? How can we trust it? And how might we build from it to track, and hopefully mitigate, the spread of future pathogens? In this episode of the Sci'more Podcast, we discuss the answers to these questions and more with Dr. Amesh Adalja, an expert in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.


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Dr. Adalja's Twitter: @AmeshAA

Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists: https://www.cste.org/


Music: ‘Lucky Massive Dangerous’ by Speck

Editing: Yun-Fei Liu

Intro: Sebastian Markert

Interviewers: Michael Dryzer and Emily Han

Outro: Michael Dryzer

With help from: Christopher An, Ashton Omdahl, and Michael Xie

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