By Kathleen Weessies & Karen Majewicz Featured Item: Johns Hopkins University Covid-19 Dashboard Early on in the worldwide outbreak of COVID-19, Johns Hopkins University took the lead in creating a portal of frequently updated data feeds. It pulls together up to 600 datasets including medical cases, hospitalizations, deaths, recoveries, stay at home orders, essential vs. nonessential business designations, and travel and quarantine orders. This Dashboard is one of the most commonly cited public sources of aggregated Covid-19 data, as it delivers public health statistics using easy-to-understand maps and charts. Users do not need to load the GIS data in external applications to analyze it. Screenshot of the Johns Hopkins University Covid-19 Dashboard on November 2, 2020 COVID-19 Cases Worldwide : Data points indicate location of available case numbers (not total cases) However, if users would like to go deeper and make maps or charts of their own, many of the geospatial datasets in