Early Crowdfunding Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As the number of COVID-19 cases increased precipitously in the United States, policy makers and health officials marshalled their pandemic responses. As the economic impacts multiplied, anecdotal reports noted the increased use of web-based crowdfunding to defray these costs.

Objective

We examined the web-based crowdfunding response in the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States to understand the incidence of initiation of COVID-19-related campaigns and compare them to non-COVID-19-related campaigns.

Methods

On May 16, 2020, we extracted all available data available on US campaigns that contained narratives and were created between January 1 and May 10, 2020, on GoFundMe. We identified the subset of COVID-19-related campaigns using keyword

SUBMITTER: Saleh SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7879716 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature