Following each question answer the question below and include 2 other sources. I have included the material from class.
1. What is the nature of an epidemic?
Historically in a specific context whatmeasures have been taken in response?
Materialfrom class: Unable to load to this site and https://www.etymonline.com/word/epidemic
2. What was the transatlantic exchange and to what degree was thedevastation of native peoples accidental? Which disease was mostdevastating?
3. How do the Plagues of Galen & Cyprian (2nd & 3rd Century),Great Plague (14th Century) and cholera outbreaks in the 19th compare in impact, spread and social response?
4. How does stigma play a role in epidemics? To what extent has HIVimpacted minority communities?
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/hiv-aids
https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/hiv/stats/2020/index.html
5. How did cultural practices impact the spread of Ebola?
What is the experience of an Ebola patientsocially (with or without treatment)?
Materialfrom Class: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2014/09/17/349256514/the-insights-of-an-ebola-doctor-who-became-a-patient
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUuRqa-XU8A
6. COVID-19: Looking at age and sex distributions (worldometer),where is greatest risk?
a. What are key determinants of mortality risk? Does schoolpolicy reflect risk?
b. Do you have a theory on the difference between males and femalesin mortality patterns (sex ratio)?
c. How does vaccine development for COVID-19 compare in speed toothers?
d. What origin and treatment controversies have arisen and why?
Material from class: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/worldwide-graphs/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/