Skiing's McCarthy Initiates Community For COVID

Freshman skier Maddie McCarthy of Barrington, R.I. launched Community For COVID, an organization that aims at enlisting students at Brown and other colleges in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A first-year Brown University student and Rhode Island native planning a medical career has launched an organization, Community For COVID, aimed at enlisting undergraduates at Brown and elsewhere in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

Maddie McCarthy told The Journal on Thursday that the effort already has attracted more than 350 students from Brown, Cornell, Swarthmore and the University of Arizona.

"I am aiming for a thousand," McCarthy wrote in an email.

Community for COVID, www.communityforcovid.com, McCarthy said, "connects undergraduates across the country by giving them one task: to disseminate facts and information about their communities."

Once students register on the web site, according to McCarthy, "they are given a template which they fill out with resources in their local community that people might not know about such as hygiene stations, legal hotlines, access to food outside of the grocery store" and other information, including locations of farmer's markets and mental health resources.

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