Hps 412: Principles Of Epidemiology Winter 2020

CoronavirusStudent’s NameInstitutional AffiliationCoronavirusIntroduction Throughout history, people have learned the significance of infectious diseases, with the inclusion of the Plague of Justinian, which is the first known pandemic on record, and the Black Death in the 14th Century (Chromosome8, 2018). America faced a horrifying scenario between 1918 and 1919 with the Spanish Flu. In more modern times, there has been the 2015-2016 Zika virus outbreak, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa between 2014 and 2016, and the worldwide SARS outbreak of 2002-2003 (Chromosome8, 2018). Such scenarios are a picture of what the role of infectious illness has been in upending ‘normal’ life, and how individuals coped with a horrible illness impacting their lives and society in general. Infectious illnesses touch the lives of everyone on Earth, and now with the emergence of COVID-19, also referred to as Coronavirus, this is truer than ever (GCD, 2020). Globally, infectious illnesses account for 26% of all deaths, second only to heart illnesses. In addition, contrary to chronic illnesses, infectious illnesses are special in their possibility for explosive worldwide impacts. I will take a closer look