COVID-19 pandemic - how can we help?

Sasha Rosenbaum Sr. Product Manager @GitHub @DivineOps

I am a human who cares

COVID-19 Pandemic

APRIL 15TH, 2020 #ALLTHETALKS

Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team Study

Flattening the curve

Effects of the pandemic (current and forecasted)

High mortality rate Potential Positives: Health care systems overload Air pollution reduction Economic slow down Acceptance of remote work Disruption of travel Deregulation of remote healthcare services Dramatic rise in unemployment Accelerated medical research Lack of childcare Communities, corporations and governments contributing to significant relief efforts School closures Rise in xenophobia and racism Increase in domestic violence April 15th, 2020 #AllTheTalks

Nurses and midwives from around the world tell us what it’s like to fight COVID-19

Nurses and midwives from around the world tell us what it’s like to fight COVID-19 - WHO video

Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJBgEICGYSQ&feature=youtu.be

How can you help?

Take care of yourself And your family

Self care isn't selfish

If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - Dalai Lama

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

• Dalai Lama

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito

• Dalai Lama

Health benefits of giving

You can donate

You can donate:

• Money
• Time
• Resources

What are the options? (Links at the end)

Volunteer in your community

Volunteer in your community

Food banks Grocery shopping for neighbors Hospital support Phone support lines Blood donations

https://www.volunteermatch.org/covid19

Volunteer online

OSS projects summary https://github.blog/2020-03-23-open-collaboration-on-covid-19/

Example open source project

https://github.com/jakobzhao/virus COVID-19: Novel Coronavirus Infection Map

Folding at Home

 Folding@home is a distributed-computing project that uses the personal computers of volunteers to model molecular dynamics for, among other things, computational drug design.

https://foldingathome.org/2020/02/27/foldinghome-takes-up-the-fight-against-covid-19-2019-ncov/

Donate to a charity focused on COVID-19 response

All The Talks Online conference is donating to the World Health Organization COVID-19 response fund. There are many other charities currently focused on supporting the response efforts, such as Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross, and local charities.

WHO COVID-19 response

Global response coordination Millions of boxes of protective equipment Public information resources Medical research investments Crisis response capacity

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/donate

Donate to your favorite charity (not focused on COVID-19)

Charities face a fund-raising crisis

Most charities get a significant percentage of their donations through fundraising events, which have now been canceled. The cause you were donating to before now needs you more than ever!

Some companies also do donation matches – check if your employer does that

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/16/charities-face-cash-crisis-as-virus-fears-hit-fundraising

Encourage corporate support

Companies are making significant contributions to support the COVID-19 response

On March 5th, Microsoft announced it would continue to pay hourly workers that support its campuses. Amazon, Expedia, Facebook, Twitter, Google and Salesforce later followed suit.

Microsoft is donating the food normally served in its cafeterias to local school children National School Lunch Program.

Donating GitHub compute capacity to help find a drug treatment

CVS delivers prescriptions for free, allows refills more than 30 days in advance

Uber Eats waves delivery fees, GrubHub delays delivery fees for independent restaurants

One example coverage article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhessekiel/2020/03/11/companies-taking-first-steps-to-support-covid-19-response-efforts/#261c3b2f6f8f

Stay Home - Save Lives

https://www.stayhomesavelives.us/home

Every generation has its moment - WHO video

Every generation has its moment - WHO video Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ETufT1IdlA

Links to resources below:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/18/21184992/coronavirus-covid-19-flu-comparison-chart

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-flatten-the-curve.html

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/16/charities-face-cash-crisis-as-virus-fears-hit-fundraising

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/world-health-organization-coronavirus-response-975543/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhessekiel/2020/03/11/companies-taking-first-steps-to-support-covid-19-response-efforts/#52e145836f8f

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/volunteering-happiness-depression-live-longer_n_3804274

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/why-giving-is-good-for-your-health/

Links to resources below:

https://github.blog/2020-03-23-open-collaboration-on-covid-19/

https://foldingathome.org/2020/02/27/foldinghome-takes-up-the-fight-against-covid-19-2019-ncov/

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/donate

https://www.volunteermatch.org/covid19