Friday, 27 March 2020

How pandemics spread

Watch this video about how pandemics develop and answer the questions below.
Choose three words and/or phrases from this video that you think are worth learning. Make sure you can teach the rest of us what they mean (explain the meaning, give examples, put the phrase in context).
How pandemics develop?

Questions

1.       What can the pandemic curve look like? What does the shape of the curve depend on?
2.       Why is it so important to ‘flatten the curve’?
3.       How does the metaphor with lily pads and the pond help us understand pandemics?
4.       Why do pandemics die down?
5.       How differently did Philadelphia and St Louis respond to the Spanish flu outbreak in 1918? What were the results?

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