Got an innovative idea for COVID-19? Y Combinator partner is funding COVID-19 Projects in the following areas:
- Producing a lot of ventilators or masks/gowns very quickly. This will require a lot of repurposing and creativity but thankfully is an engineering problem not a scientific ones.
- Screening existing drugs for effectiveness.
- Novel approaches to vaccines (i.e., not doing what the big pharma companies are already doing).
- Novel therapeutics that the big pharma companies are unlikely to work on.
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