Helping with COVID-19 Projects: Cloudflare Workers now free through Project Galileo

The Internet has played a crucial role in responding to the COVID-19 crisis, enabling communication between researchers and sharing vital data about the spread of the virus. Cloudflare is offering free access to its Cloudflare Workers compute platform through Project Galileo for critical web projects that help fight against the pandemic. This initiative supports developers who are creating tools to assist the public during this crisis. Some examples include API-COVID19-In, a project by Amod Malviya tracking COVID-19 cases in India; MakeFaceMasks, a Belgian grassroots movement providing a DIY manual for sewing masks approved by the government; Mask A Hero NY, a volunteer-run site matching medical professionals with donors of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE); and CovidTracking API, which collects and publishes testing data available for US states and territories. Cloudflare Workers offers several benefits such as ease of setup, scalability, and no need to maintain or scale infrastructure. Developers can get started with resources like Workers Sites, tutorials, template gallery, HTMLRewriter API, and the Built with Workers gallery for inspiration on what they can build using Workers.