Don't Be A Sheep: COVID-19 Edition

How well are you able to decode all of the different types of media sources out there feeding you news about the COVID-19 global pandemic?

STEP 1: Take this online quiz (make sure you have the volume turned up for the video portions)

STEP 2: Write a reflection based on your results.

Your assessment will be graded based on the quality of your reflection, NOT on how many items you got wrong or right  -- meaning, what did you learn from taking the quiz?

#flattenthecurve

As we discussed in class yesterday, it’s critical to be informed as to why certain measures have been taken to help our entire society reduce risk in the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak:

“What epidemiologists fear most is the health care system becoming overwhelmed by a sudden explosion of illness that requires more people to be hospitalized than it can handle. In that scenario, more people will die because there won’t be enough hospital beds or ventilators to keep them alive.

A disastrous inundation of hospitals can likely be averted with protective measures we’re now seeing more of — closing schools, canceling mass gatherings, working from home, self-quarantine, avoiding crowds — to keep the virus from spreading fast.

Epidemiologists call this strategy of preventing a huge spike in cases ‘flattening the curve,’ and it looks like this: