From outbreak to epidemic to pandemic. Calls for flattening the curve, social distancing, and face masks. A 12-slide presentation details pandemics and strategies for containment and mitigation of infectious diseases.

Concepts

pandemics, viruses, epidemics, world war i, post world war i

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Additional Tags

health

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Instructional Ideas

• Have groups investigate the current status of vaccine development and availability
• Have other groups investigate the social and political pressures that influenced the response to the Pandemic of 1918 and compare those pressures to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Classroom Considerations

• The second of two lessons from the COVID-19 Science series
• Data in the slides are from April 2020 and does not represent current information

Pros

• Includes charts that show how different cities responded to the virus and the effectiveness of their strategies

Cons

• Information is dated