As of April 2022, global cases of Covid-19 have exceeded 508 million and 6 million deaths. Tracking positive cases and hot spots is extremely important in the face of pandemics. This enables the government and citizens to make informed decisions in light of the events. This emphasis on case tracking …
“US mortality data for 2020, which estimated a 17.7% increase in overall mortality, but a 5.6% decline in US suicide rates compared to 2019” Bastiampillai,T The biggest leap toward helping individuals suffering from mental illnesses occurred one hundred and twenty years ago in the year 1920 when America’s first suicide …
Chaos, division of countries/states, and major decreases in mortality. All these words are used to associate with plagues and pandemics that have hit our earth. Of course they have hit all kinds of people, but is there a group of people who got hit the worst? Specifically, let us focus …
“Wear a mask! Wash your hands! Take correct precautions when you’re sick!” These are key phrases you hear when there is a massive outbreak of illness. These phrases are far too familiar to us now. Several different pandemics have occurred throughout history and lots of them have proved that history …
Introduction: Pandemics have always had some sort of negative impact on the military. More people died from influenza than conflict during World War I. Even though we aren’t at war, military operations are being negatively impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. What are the effects pandemics have on the military and …
“The conversion of nature for production is winning the race, and conservationists are trying to beat the clock. It’s becoming one giant race to get to first place.” – Kristine Tompkins, Cofounder and President, Tompkins Conservation Introduction While the Covid-19 Pandemic continues, it is important to take a step back …
In Short, COVID-19 is an extremely transmissible and infectious disease caused by the SARS-COV-2 virus. In most cases, contracting the coronavirus will result in “mild to moderate respiratory illness,” (WHO). However, there is a greater risk of serious illness among certain groups of high-risk people like those in the elderly, diabetic, and immunocompromised communities, and it is beginning to look like COVID-19 will become a routinely mutating disease like influenza.
COVID-19 where did it come from and where is it going? To start let’s discuss the history of the virus. SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 is a single-stranded positive-sense RNA virus that is part of a zoonotic Coronaviridae family and is most genetically similar to SARS-CoV-1 (Bahchechi, M.). This means that the virus currently wreaking havoc on the world evolved from a similar variant of a similar disease in a closely related set of diseases. This set of diseases are considered zoonotic which means that they originate first in animals before entering the human population. The genetic material of this virus is RNA, typical cells use DNA as their genetic material. Viruses are a type of pathogen that require hosts to survive and replicate, therefore they are not considered to be alive. But if viruses are not alive, how can they evolve?
At the beginning of the pandemic, one of the things we as a society began to worry about were its effects on our pets and being able to spread this disease from human to animal and vice versa. Could just touching the pet of an infected individual infect us or …
Covid 19 has impacted and changed everything from how we socialize and what we wear. The institutionalization of face masks to protect from Covid-19 is one of the big changes in preventing the disease. Wearing masks to protect oneself from sickness, is nothing new to our society and has been …
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