How Scientists Can Fight COVID-19

A friend listed some calls for help:

• The UK urgently needs help from modellers. You must be willing to work on specified tasks and meet deadlines. Previous experience in epidemic modelling is not required.

https://epcced.github.io/ramp/

• MIT is having a “Beat the Pandemic” hackathon online April 3-5. You can help them develop solutions that address the most pressing technical, social, and financial issues caused by the COVID-19 outbreak:

https://covid19challenge.mit.edu/

• The COVID-19 National Scientist Volunteer Database Coordination Team is looking for scientists to help local COVID-19 efforts in the US:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXC56q2tPgz0WbPrhP7WareiclfxfaKQFI0ZbXg4FkKan5iQ/viewform

• The Real Time Epidemic datathon, which started March 30, is collective open source project for developing real-time and large-scale epidemic forecasting models:

https://www.epidemicdatathon.com/

• Crowdfight COVID-19 is a mailing list that sends lists of tasks for which help is needed:

https://crowdfightcovid19.org/volunteers (address not working when I last checked—maybe overloaded?)