Join a Group for the COVID19 Pandemic Discussion

  • Due May 11, 2022 by 11:59pm
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For our discussion this week, you get to choose from different topics all centered on the COVID19 Pandemic. The topics are all listed below, with the required readings/films/podcasts and the discussion questions.

Before you will be able to post in the discussion, you need sign up for the discussion you want to participate in. Here are the steps.

STEP 1: Read through the list of topics below, and decide which one you want to participate in.

STEP 2: Sign up for your group by following this guide: https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-10516 Links to an external site.

STEP 3: Your group should now be available for you on the Discussion: COVID19 Pandemic page. Complete your initial post using the sources and discussion questions listed for your topic by the due date. Post two peer responses within 48 hours of the due date.

Note: If you are interested in seeing what students wrote about in other topics, you can post in another discussion and just say that you are there to check out what people were talking about.

 

Discussion Topics

  1. Global Inequality and COVID19

Required Reading:

Recommended:

India's Second Wave

Discussion:

Please answer all of the following:

    • What are two key points from the Mahar or Smith article (whichever you chose to read) that you thought were particularly important? Explain.
    • What connections do you see between the Mahar or Smith article and the inequities in vaccine distribution described by the U.N. and the W.H.O.?
    • Share anything else you thought was interesting.
    • Feel free to share any related resources you have come across. (Please make sure they are credible first.)

  1. Biocultural Analysis of COVID19

Required Reading and/or Videos:

Recommended:

Please answer all of the following:

      • What are two key points from the assigned materials that particularly stood out to you? Explain.
      • What are some of the ways humans have altered the environment that create conditions for more novel viruses to emerge?
      • What are some of the ways that the human body is being impacted by the pandemic beyond the virus itself?
      • Share anything else you thought was interesting.
      • Feel free to share any related resources you have come across. (Please make sure they are credible first.)

  1. 1918 Flu

Required Readings and/or Videos:

Discussion:

Please answer all of the following:

      • What were some of the surprising features of the novel 1918 Flu virus and disease?
      • What were some of the nonbiological factors that made the 1918 Flu epidemic worse?
      • What connections do you see between the 1918 Flu epidemic and the COVID19 pandemic?
      • Share anything else you thought was interesting.
      • Feel free to share any related resources you have come across. (Please make sure they are credible first.)
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