At the eLife Sprint in September 2020, we revamped the covidpreprints.com website, which aims at featuring landmark preprints on a timeline of the pandemic. The birth of the project The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to about 35 million confirmed cases and over a million deaths worldwide. The looming spectre of a second wave of the pandemic has spurred around-the-clock research efforts to better understand the pathology and epidemiology of the virus, in the hope of new therapies and …