Our Johns Hopkins University Centers for Civic Impact Executive Director Beth Blauer is quoted in this March 2022 article by Nature which discusses the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.

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In March 2020, Beth Blauer started hearing anecdotally that COVID-19 was disproportionately affecting Black people in the United States. But the numbers to confirm that disparity were “very limited”, says Blauer, a data and public-policy specialist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. So, her team, which had developed one of the most popular tools for tracking the spread of COVID-19 around the world, added a new graphic to their website: a colour-coded map tracking which US states were — and were not — sharing infection and death data broken down by race and ethnicity.

Read more of this article at Nature.