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Sep 17, 2020 20 tweets 46 min read Read on X
#Canadians pls share widely

If you/your org are responding to #COVID-19 & could use help from volunteer researchers, scientists, health care professionals, students in these disciplines, 5000+ volunteers @COVID_19_Canada can help.

Here is some of what we're already doing:
@COVID_19_Canada :

-34,000 volunteer hrs deployed
-45% community support (care homes, elder, mental health & HCW support)
-44% research (clinical trials, epi studies, data collection, analysis, app devt)
-9% #scicomm (kitchen table "chats", #COVID-19 Science Explained)
Science volunteers @COVID_19_Canada speak every major language in #Canada, can help w/ translation, outreach in non-English/French-speaking communities.

Volunteers have app & web dev skills, multiple programming languages, wet lab, science communication & teaching expertise.
More than 70% of @COVID_19_Canada volunteers have at least a Masters degree.

We're located in every #Canadian province & territory.

We & @CanCovid are working to identify & respond to both community & policy maker #COVID-19 needs.

If you need our volunteers, here's how:
We get requests to find people for paid positions too, so if you're a scientist/researcher/health care professional who might be interested in work, you can sign up on our volunteer list to receive notifications of any position requests we receive that fit your skill set.
If you want to sign up to volunteer/receive notification of paid #COVID-19 response positions matching your skill set, you can sign up here: covid19resources.ca/Volunteer.html

We're especially looking for interested folk in the Atlantic provinces & Yukon, Nunavut, NWT
CC folks who can help us get info out that @COVID_19_Canada science volunteers can help w/ lots of #COVID-19 community, science communication & research needs:

@josh_greenberg @bradwouters @amaybee @JoshMatlow @imgrund @davidkaplanmd @AlainnaJJ @AminaJabbar @E4Dca @AntibioticDoc
Thanks for your patience, everyone tagged on this thread. Trying to make sure that people know we can help if they need it as cases ramp up again. We're fast and effective!
#Canadian journalists covering #COVID-19, especially freelancers, smaller communities w/ little research budget

@COVID_19_Canada science & researcher volunteers can help collect, analyze & visualize data for your investigative reporting. See thread for link to request volunteers
If you can, please help get the word out to #Canadian journalists that @COVID_19_Canada volunteer researchers may be able to help, especially for those who are resource- or time-strapped.

To request volunteers, go here: covid19resources.ca/requestvolunte…

cc @picardonhealth @carlyweeks

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