What I’ve been doing for the #COVID19 crisis this past few weeks is compiling information. Literature review, compilation of existing efforts, and some coordination/outreach/technical writing work for a project to build & donate low-cost non-invasive ventilators.
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I’m finding that there’s a ton of *volume of talk* about COVID19 and not nearly enough aggregation and synthesis. I’m almost done with a project to comprehensively list all the charitable projects to make & donate PPE to healthcare workers. There’s nothing out there like this.
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There’s a fair amount of medical literature out there, also, and very little *synthesis* into answers to questions.
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Most attempts to draw conclusions about what should be done, even by very smart people, don’t even attempt to pull up all the relevant evidence that a person with Google could find in a day or two of focused work.
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I don’t know a word for the thing I do. I’m not a doctor; I’m not a nurse; I’m not an engineer. I’m a...writer?
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But I do think what I do is worth doing and not being done adequately by default. People taking action to help with the crisis need information to guide their decisions. And not a flood of popcorn news articles, but something more comprehensive aggregating info.
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I’m tooting my own horn a bit because I think the info-aggregation thing I do needs to become bigger than just “Sarah blog posts” and it needs a name & recognition.
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What bigger form are you thinking? I think many people are doing their own info-aggregation and it might be nice to get it all in one place in some organized way. Like say there was a list of important questions somewhere and people contributed lit reviews around them
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Also big projects like Helpful Engineering have *tons* of people in various roles but a real deficit of info-aggregation; in my ideal world every coordinated relief effort above a certain size would have a dedicated writer/researcher
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