Ask HN: What can programmers do to help with the coronavirus?

Apart from helping getting groceries or medicine for the quarantined, what can programmers do to help in this health crisis? How can we use our skills to aid the effort to prevent spreading of the virus, effort to help the affected or the effort to put the economy back on track when we're through this?

i just posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22585852 with app idea we hackers could get live asap

Clean their keyboards with alcohol-based wipes!

Realize this is a non-technical problem that won't be solved by an App with location tracking and ad-based monetization model...

Follow the CDC advice, wash your hands, social distancing, encouraging smart policies at your company. Avoid contact with the elderly and stop thinking you're so smart surely YOU'RE the one who's going to solve this problem (with your magical skillset to build CRUD apps).

- Increased demand for food-at-home combined with reduced traffic on the roads => sign up as a bicycle courier?

- Social isolation of the elderly => provide TV/media installation help?

- More spare time => relax, do a bit more reading, look at some software projects you use and try to fix a random bug or two?

- Risks to public health and healthcare => become well-informed, be on the look out for misinformation online, and try to stay optimistic and good-natured to help everyone through it

Although there's always a big temptation to hack on something huge and world-changing (a new social platform, building healthcare equipment) -- it could be more realistic to step back and do some smaller things in your community, especially if they already know what help they need and are asking for assistance.