Authors: Vineet Desai; Jessie Duggan; Jakub Glowala; Manav Gupta; Kiryung Kim; Gina Liu; Katherine McDaniel, MSc; Katherine Nabel; Himaja Nagireddy; Deborah Plana; Emily Rencsok; Connor Verheyen; Lily Zhong
Editor:
Reviewers: Wolfram Goessling, MD, PhD; Andrea Wershof Schwartz, MD, MPH; William Hanage, PhD; Rebecca Kahn, MS; James Hay, PhD
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: Added definition of presymptomatic vs. asymptomatic
Added section on differential
Included information on in nursing homes
Introduction
Learning Objectives
By the end of this module, medical students should be able to:
Define R0, Re, incubation period, serial interval, epidemic curve, community transmission, social distancing, and flattening the curve as they pertain to COVID-19
Access a reliable source of the latest epidemiologic information about COVID-19
Describe how changing epidemiological parameters changes disease dynamics
Contrast three cases that illustrate how nonpharmaceutical interventions save lives in a pandemic
Core Materials