For two months, CNN’s Johns Hopkins-sourced Covid-19 infections and death count dashboard has been an ever-present fixture of its coverage, appearing for a third of its airtime every single day since March 20. No matter what story CNN was covering during the day, the dashboard was there on the side, tallying the Covid health impact. Yet on May 28, CNN began phasing it out and by the following day it had all but disappeared, from 9 hours a day to just 33 minutes, dropping to nearly zero two days later.