![[article image]](https://cacm.acm.org/system/assets/0003/6973/041320_Johns_Hopkins_University_Center_for_Bioengineering_Innovation_Design__hackathon.large.jpg?1586796484&1586796484 "A screenshot of team members during a hackathon.")
Thousands of technology enthusiasts and others worldwide are participating in hackathons to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
For example, the Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design ran a five-day hackathon during the last week of March whose targets included communicating effectively about COVID-19, prevention of transmission within communities, and healthcare equipment shortages.
Meanwhile, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted a two-day Beat the Pandemic hackathon in which 1,500 participants worked in 238 teams to produce a mobile machine learning app to score individuals' COVID-19 immunity according to as location, age, interactions, and health history.
Said Sam Lessin of venture capital firm Slow Ventures, which helped organize a hackathon last month, “Doctors are leading the fight, but a lot of people would love to find ways to engage and help.”
From The Wall Street Journal
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