As pandemic ebbs, influential COVID tracker shuts down

Johns Hopkins University

NPR's "Morning Edition" broke the news on Friday that Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center plans to cease operations March 10, saying, "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."

The story quotes Beth Blauer, an associate vice provost who has helped run the center, and Lauren Gardner, an engineering professor who launched the project with one of her students on March 3, 2020.

"It's bittersweet," Gardner told NPR. "But it's an appropriate time to move on."

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