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An Interactive Web-Based Dashboard To Track COVID-19 in Real Time
An Interactive Web-Based Dashboard To Track COVID-19 in Real Time
An Interactive Web-Based Dashboard To Track COVID-19 in Real Time
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disease 2019 (COVID-19) in real time. Figure: Comparison of COVID-19 case reporting from different sources
The dashboard, first shared publicly Daily cumulative case numbers (starting Jan 22, 2020) reported by the Johns Hopkins University Center for
Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE), WHO situation reports, and the Chinese Center for Disease Control
on Jan 22, illustrates the location and and Prevention (Chinese CDC) for within (A) and outside (B) mainland China.
number of confirmed COVID-19 cases,
deaths, and recoveries for all affected
countries. It was developed to provide by members of the Chinese medical including the respective centres for
researchers, public health authorities, community, which aggregates local disease control and prevention (CDC)
and the general public with a user- media and government reports to of China, Taiwan, and Europe, the
friendly tool to track the outbreak provide cumulative totals of COVID-19 Hong Kong Department of Health,
as it unfolds. All data collected and cases in near real time at the province the Macau Government, and WHO, as
displayed are made freely available, level in China and at the country well as city-level and state-level health
initially through Google Sheets and level otherwise. Every 15 min, the authorities. For city-level case reports
now through a GitHub repository, cumulative case counts are updated in the USA, Australia, and Canada, For the COVID-19 data
repository at GitHub see
along with the feature layers of the from DXY for all provinces in China which we began reporting on Feb 1, we
https://github.com/
dashboard, which are now included in and for other affected countries and rely on the US CDC, the government of CSSEGISandData/COVID-19
the Esri Living Atlas. regions. For countries and regions Canada, the Australian Government
The dashboard reports cases at the outside mainland China (including Department of Health, and various
province level in China; at the city level Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan), we state or territory health authorities.
in the USA, Australia, and Canada; found DXY cumulative case counts to All manual updates (for countries
and at the country level otherwise. frequently lag behind other sources; and regions outside mainland
During Jan 22–31, all data collection we therefore manually update these China) are coordinated by a team at
and processing were done manually, case numbers throughout the day Johns Hopkins University.
and updates were typically done twice when new cases are identified. To The case data reported on the
a day, morning and night (US Eastern identify new cases, we monitor dashboard aligns with the daily Chinese
Time). As the outbreak evolved, the various Twitter feeds, online news CDC3 and WHO situation reports2 for
manual reporting process became services, and direct communication within and outside of mainland China,
unsustainable; therefore, on Feb 1, sent through the dashboard. Before respectively (figure). Furthermore,
we adopted a semi-automated living manually updating the dashboard, the dashboard is particularly effective
For coronavirus data at DXY see
data stream strategy. Our primary data we confirm the case numbers with at capturing the timing of the first https://ncov.dxy.cn/ncovh5/
source is DXY, an online platform run regional and local health departments, reported case of COVID-19 in new view/pneumonia
See Online for appendix countries or regions (appendix). With report on future outbreaks. We 1 WHO. WHO statement regarding cluster of
pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China.
the exception of Australia, Hong believe our efforts are crucial to help Jan 9, 2020. https://www.who.int/china/news/
Kong, and Italy, the CSSE at Johns inform modelling efforts and control detail/09-01-2020-who-statement-regarding-
Hopkins University has reported newly measures during the earliest stages of cluster-of-pneumonia-cases-in-wuhan-china
(accessed Feb 11, 2020).
infected countries ahead of WHO, with the outbreak. 2 WHO. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Hong Kong and Italy reported within We declare no competing interests. situation reports. https://www.who.int/
emergencies/diseases/novel-
hours of the corresponding WHO We are grateful for the technical support from the coronavirus-2019/situation-reports (accessed
situation report. Esri Living Atlas team and the Johns Hopkins Feb 17, 2020).
Given the popularity and impact University Applied Physics Lab. 3 Chinese Center for Disease Control and
Prevention. Tracking the epidemic.
of the dashboard to date, we plan Ensheng Dong, Hongru Du, http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/news/
to continue hosting and managing *Lauren Gardner TrackingtheEpidemic.htm (accessed
Feb 11, 2020).
the tool throughout the entirety l.gardner@jhu.edu
of the COVID-19 outbreak and to Department of Civil and Systems Engineering,
build out its capabilities to establish Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218,
USA (ED, HD, LG)
a standing tool to monitor and