Ask HN: What is the best way to help research on Covid-19?

I am software engineer with some data science and evolutionary algorithms background. I have heard about the foldit challenge to help covid19, but I am not sure about it's impact. I have never learned bio related data science, but I'd like to learn the basics to understand the problem. What tools / methods / materials are available to an "average" programmer to start with to help this new virus?