Scientists are drowning in COVID-19 papers. Can new tools keep them afloat?

Science's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center. Timothy Sheahan, a virologist studying COVID-19, wishes he could keep pace with the growing torrent of new scientific papers about the disease and the novel coronavirus that causes it. But there are just too many--more than 4000 alone last week. "I'm not keeping up," says Sheahan, who works at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A loose-knit army of data scientists, software developers, and journal publishers is pressing hard to change that.