Healthcare Systems
Mental Health Impacts
Community Health Initiatives
Vaccination and Immunization
Global Public Health Lessons
100

This term describes the shortage of hospital beds during the early stages of the pandemic.

what is hospital capacity crisis

100

The fear of contracting COVID-19 increased rates of this mental health condition.

What is anxiety?

100

These locations were used to administer large-scale COVID-19 vaccines.

What are vaccination centers?

100

This company developed the first widely distributed mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.

What is Pfizer?

100

Many nations mandated this safety measure in indoor public spaces.

What is mask-wearing?

200

Healthcare workers wore these essential items to protect themselves.

What is personal protective equipment or PPE?

200

Isolation and quarantine led to increased rates of this mood disorder.

What is depression?

200

Local governments used these orders to keep people safe by limiting movement.

What are stay-at-home orders?

200

This term refers to community-wide immunity when a large percentage of the population is vaccinated.

What is herd immunity?

200

 This international organization coordinated pandemic responses.

What is the World Health Organization or WHO?

300

This term refers to the increase in remote doctor-patient appointments during COVID-19.

What is telemedicine?

300

Many children struggled due to the closure of these.

What are schools?

300

This term describes efforts to provide food to those in need during the pandemic.

What are food distribution programs?

300

This phrase was used to describe reluctance or fear of vaccines.

What is vaccine hesitancy?

300

 Travel restrictions and lockdowns aimed to achieve this public health goal.

What is flattening the curve?

400

COVID-19 overwhelmed hospitals, causing delays in these non-urgent medical procedures.

What are elective surgeries?

400

This term describes exhaustion caused by excessive virtual meetings.

What is Zoom fatigue?

400

Communities developed these to ensure isolated people received groceries and medication.

What are mutual aid networks?

400

The Johnson & Johnson vaccine was unique because it only required this many doses.

What is one dose?

400

The pandemic highlighted the need for more funding for this type of readiness.

What is pandemic preparedness?

500

This health strategy focused on isolating individuals who had been exposed to limit virus spread.

What is contact tracing?

500

Some healthcare workers developed this trauma-related disorder due to pandemic stress.

What is PTSD or post-traumatic stress disorder?

500

Public health campaigns emphasized this practice to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in public spaces.

What is mask-wearing?

500

These digital or paper records confirmed individuals had been vaccinated.

What are vaccine passports?

500

This term describes the misinformation spread about COVID-19 and vaccines.

What is an infodemic?

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