COVID-19
1.) Introduction- What is a pandemic? What is an epidemic?
(of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world.
a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.
2.) Introduce your disease. What is the disease? Provide a description/definition.
COVID-19 is caused by a novel coronavirus—a new coronavirus strain that has not been previously found in people.
3.) Where and when did the disease originate?
The first reported case in China appeared November 17, 2019, in the Hubei Province, but went unrecognized. Eight more cases appeared in December with researchers pointing to an unknown virus.
4.) What are the symptoms of the disease? How does it spread?
Symptoms include respiratory problems, fever and cough, and can lead to pneumonia and death. Like SARS, it’s spread through droplets from sneezes.
5.) What population sets were hardest hit by the disease?
old people
6.) What is the mortality rate of the disease?
Based on death certificate data, the percentage of deaths attributed to pneumonia, influenza or COVID-19 (PIC) decreased from 15.9% during week 20 to 9.8% during week 21 but remained above baseline. This is the fifth week of a declining percentage of deaths due to PIC, but this percentage may change as more death certificates are processed, particularly for recent weeks.
(of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world.
a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.
COVID-19 is caused by a novel coronavirus—a new coronavirus strain that has not been previously found in people.
The first reported case in China appeared November 17, 2019, in the Hubei Province, but went unrecognized. Eight more cases appeared in December with researchers pointing to an unknown virus.
4.) What are the symptoms of the disease? How does it spread?
Symptoms include respiratory problems, fever and cough, and can lead to pneumonia and death. Like SARS, it’s spread through droplets from sneezes.
5.) What population sets were hardest hit by the disease?
old people
6.) What is the mortality rate of the disease?
Based on death certificate data, the percentage of deaths attributed to pneumonia, influenza or COVID-19 (PIC) decreased from 15.9% during week 20 to 9.8% during week 21 but remained above baseline. This is the fifth week of a declining percentage of deaths due to PIC, but this percentage may change as more death certificates are processed, particularly for recent weeks.
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