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Life & fun · March 27, 2020

CoronaWhy

Globally distributed, fully remote COVID-19 AI task-force

CoronaWhy launched on March 27, 2020 with 139 votes, #211 of 4,417 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

What it does

CoronaWhy is an international group of 300+ volunteers whose mission is to improve global coordination and analysis of all available data pertinent to the COVID-19 outbreak and ensure all findings reach those who need them.

Join our globally distributed, volunteer-powered research organisation. We're trying to assist the medical community’s ability to answer key questions related to COVID-19.

Artur Kiulian started CoronaWhy because he realized that we are all in this together. Now CoronaWhy is an international group of 1311 volunteers whose mission is to improve global coordination and analysis of all available data pertinent to the COVID-19 outbreak and ensure all findings reach those who need them. It's impossible to list everyone out but we will eventually. In response to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, the White House and a coalition of leading research groups have prepared the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19). CORD-19 is a freely available data-set of over 47,000 scholarly articles provided to the global research community to generate new insights in support of…from coronawhy.org

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