COVID-19 Flashcards
a greater than expected number of new cases in a defined area
outbreak
a greater than expected number of new cases of a disease affecting a large population or region
epidemic
a greater than expected number of new cases affecting multiple countries around the world at the same time
a virus from the coronavirus and SARS family with spiky proteins on the surface
Coronavirus disease 2019
Small droplets that can linger in the air for many hours and drift far from it’s origin
aerosols
when an infected person exhales bits of respiratory fluid into the air, but will not travel more then 2 meters way
droplet transmission
when respiratory units land on a surface and is touched by a new host
fomite transmission
What method of disease tracking the City of Ottawa develop during SARS-CoV-2?
wastewater testing
An immune reaction that causes the body to release large amounts of cytokines into the bloodstream resulting in high inflammation and a common way to die from COVID-19
cytokine storm
A syndrome resulting from COVID-19 that causes a person to have symptoms 3 months after original infection that continues for another 2 months
long COVID
What are the three highest comorbidity with COVID-19 death?
- Dementia or alzheimer
- pneumonia
- hypertensive disease
What factors are more likely to determine who is more harmed by COVID-19?
having a lower socio-economic status, and being indigenous, African-American or Latino
What is the purpose of a “lockdown”
- preserve the healthcare systems ability to treat people
- keep people apart
What is the best ways to slow the transmutation of COVID-19?
staying 1 to 2 meters apart, wearing a cloth mask for droplets and a medical mast for aerosols, and improved ventilation in crowded places
why was the first effective vaccines created so fast?
Governments agreed to pay for several clinical trials at the same company at once, new technologies created for other diseases, lots of available data, assessment process began during clinical trials.
A vaccine made from a carrier and harmless virus that delivers the protein for our body to make antibodies from.
viral-vector vaccine
a vaccine that injects pieces of the spike protein into our blood stream
protein subunit vacine
What are the three types of virus variants levels?
variants of interest, variants of concern, variants of high consequence
A graph showing the number of new infections that will assist in knowing the waves of infection
epidemic curve
A ratio of how many cases die
case fatality ratio
the faction of cases that die that we don’t know about
infection fatality ratio
the fraction of cases of tests that come back positive
test positivity ratio
Average number of new cases that will occur due to one infection
reproduction number
