By Scott McLean, Laura Perez Maestro, Sergio Hernandez, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Katie Polglase, CNN
Published Tuesday, May 19, 2020 at 12:00 a.m. ET
The answer to the question as to who operates the Worldometer website, the website that almost the entire corporate media (and some in the Alternative Media as well) is publishing as fact, seems to be shrouded in mystery.
The Worldometer website claims this about the site:
Worldometer is run by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the goal of making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time relevant format to a wide audience around the world. It is published by a small and independent digital media company based in the United States. We have no political, governmental, or corporate affiliation.
That’s it. No names of the people operating the website, and they do not identify the “small and independent digital media company based in the United States” on their own website.
It takes some digging to find out the name of the company who owns the Worldometer website, and it is Dadax. They appear to have a single page website which says:
Dadax is a US-based and American owned small digital media company.
It was founded over 15 years ago.
We are the publishers of Worldometer.
That’s it.
When searching for more information about this company, it is difficult to find much else. There is a company of the same name in China, but they have publicly stated that they have no affiliation with the U.S. company by the same name.
There is a Dadax, LLC company listed in Delware that is listed as a “Foreign Limited Liability Company.”
According to this listing, it is managed by two persons, and the principle person is DARIO PASQUALINO. But there are several other “related companies” with the same name. (Source.)
Interestingly, the Worldometer’s website was attacked by cyber attacks in March, as someone apparently wanted the website to come down. (Source.)
Because the data on Worldometer is almost identical to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) website at Johns Hopkins University, it is possible that the data source for both sites are the same.
Lauren Gardner, an epidemiologist and co-director of the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, is credited with developing the dashboard that is mirrored on the Worldometer website.
Guo Meiping, writing for the China Global Television Network (CGTN) in an article titled: “Why does U.S. COVID-19 data come from a university not the government?“, states:
The entire concept and visualization of the (Johns Hopkins University) dashboard were prepared by a civil and systems engineering professor, Lauren Gardner, and two Chinese students, Dong Ensheng and Du Hongru – both first-year Ph.D. students at the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
Dong told a local Chinese media outlet that on March 12, the dashboard got two billion hits from the entire world in a single day. They also co-authored a short piece explaining the dashboard, which was published on the world-leading medical journal The Lancet on February 19.
At this point, who owns Worldometer is still a mystery. It appears to mirror the dashboard at Johns Hopkins University, but it is not clear from which site the data originates.
This is the data repository for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Visual Dashboard operated by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (JHU CSSE). Also, Supported by ESRI Living Atlas Team and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU APL).
DATA SOURCES:
https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/blob/master/README.md
COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins
"Financial Support: JHU, NSF, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Stavros Niarchos Foundation."
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Bloomberg Philanthropies
"Accelerating the fight against COVID-19"
"Mike Bloomberg’s entrepreneurial spirit, public policy experience, and belief in the power of cities to take action helps define Bloomberg Philanthropies’ distinct approach to driving change."
"As the founder of a global data and media company, Bloomberg LP, as 108th Mayor of New York City, and as the guiding force behind Bloomberg Philanthropies, Mike Bloomberg works every day to change people’s lives in meaningful ways."
https://www.bloomberg.org/about/
So, moved on from spamming the Flubro threads for months to spamming /index?
Strategic move there Swiftie.
No spamming, please.
"The model is unique in applying machine learning to derive the basic reproduction number (R0) from data published by Johns Hopkins University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE), and it seeks to minimize the error between its projections and CSSE data on the number of United States COVID-19 deaths.[3][4]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youyang_Gu_COVID_model
Oh my, another Bloomberg connection, and Dr. Murray opines:
The 27-Year-Old Who Became a Covid-19 Data Superstar
February 19, 2021, 6:00 AM EST
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-19/covid-pandemic-how-youyang-gu-used-ai-and-data-to-make-most-accurate-prediction?sref=htOHjx5Y
Dr. Birx, A Dr. Chris Murray Model
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3927740/posts?page=19#19
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3850959/posts?page=11#11
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3853652/posts?page=16#16
Dr. Christoper Murray, M.D. IHME University of Washington, WHO, John Hopkins >>Worldometers etc
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3838403/posts?page=112#112
h/t mrsmith
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3937558/posts?page=39#39