Here Are the Ways Science and Tech Experts Can Volunteer to Help With the Coronavirus Response
Calling all scientists and engineers
If you’re a scientist, engineer, or health professional, part of your training is to serve society. You might be wondering in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic how you can help when you’re working at home. Here are actions you can take as an individual in your community and online, as well as organized efforts by scientific and technical organizations that you can take today in the United States.
There may be similar efforts internationally, and I encourage those who are aware of such initiatives to add these to the response section (along with any efforts in the United States that I might have missed). I’ll then edit the main article to add them in. As of now, I found that scientific and technical volunteer efforts fall into five categories: digital, challenges, human resources, manufacturing, and education.
Digital
The Covid Tracking Project
This project tracks the positive and negative results, pending tests, and total people tested for the virus as reported by states and local governments. The CDC is not reporting all this data, nor are all states necessarily providing it. So the project needs…
