Where COVID originated from
What is China?
(+100 for saying Hunan Seafood Market)
Why disease tracing is important
What is bc we need to know its origins to combat it?
Why Surveillance is important
What is bc we need to track diseases to stay up to date?
Most computer-intensive model
What is Agent-based?
Chemical symbol for the element Tin
What is Sn?
The scientific name for COVID
What is SARS-CoV-2?
This epidemiological activity involves tracking individual cases and their contacts.
What is contact tracing?
How are surveillance and tracing related?
What is determining origin through monitoring?
Two Major epidemiology models
What is Compartmental & Agent-based?
Who composed the famous ballet "The Nutcracker"?
Who is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
The SARS-CoV-2 virus makes its way to this body system
What is the respiratory tract (nose, throat, lungs)?
Two animals with viruses most closely related to COVID-19
What are bats and pangolins?
The CDC Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) and VAERS are systems used for monitoring the safety of this.
What is Vaccine?
The type of math SIR Models are based in
What is Calculus?
What is the capital city of Australia?
Where is Canberra?
The method COVID uses to spread to other cells
What is exocytosis?
Define zoonesses (or reverse-zoonoses)
The study of the movement of the disease from animals back to humans.
Difference between Passive & Active Surveillance
Passive is reported via healthcare providers/patients
Active is dedicated outreach from public officials
Daily Double: Stochastic vs Deterministic
Stochastic: Individual parameters can be changed
Deterministic: Individual parameters are constant
What planet is Luke Skywalker from in Star Wars?
What is Tatooine?
The Nsp1 Protein causes this effect by binding to a ribosome's mRNA entry channel.
What is selective ribosomal shutdown?
Two methods used to trace COVID
What are Serological surveys, RT-PCR, field-acquired infections, laboratory-acquired infections, spatial risk analysis, etc.
Which one is not a real program:
CDC Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD)
Commission for Pre-administrative Vaccinations (CPAV)
Biologics Effectiveness and Safety System (BEST)
CPAV
Two reasons why modeling is useful
What is understanding how diseases spread, evaluating the effectiveness of control measures like vaccines and quarantines, and making predictions about future outbreaks
The current most highly valued soccer player
Who is Lamine Yamal? (200 mil)