COVID 19 Terminology

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Across
  1. 4. a type of blood test that looks for antibodies produced by the immune system against a specific pathogen such as COVID-19
  2. 6. the act of refraining from any contact with other individuals for a period of time
  3. 8. personal protective equipment
  4. 9. the time between when an individual is first exposed to a virus and the appearance of symptoms
  5. 10. a worldwide spread of an infectious disease, with larger reach than an epidemic
  6. 13. illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2
  7. 14. an illness that can be transmitted from one person to another
  8. 15. branch of the United Nations known as the Word Health Organization that protects the world’s health with regard to infectious and other diseases
  9. 16. the act of remaining physically apart in an effort to prevent transmission of COVID-19
Down
  1. 1. an attempt to create a more gradual increase of cases to avoid overburdening the health care system
  2. 2. identifying & monitoring people who may have come into contact with an infectious person
  3. 3. a biological preparation of organisms that provides immunity to a particular infectious disease
  4. 5. a highly contagious individual who can spread an infectious disease to a large number of uninfected people through a network of contacts
  5. 7. when there is no known contact traced to other infected individuals
  6. 11. describes a person who shows no symptoms of a disease
  7. 12. a U.S. government agency that protects the health of the U.S. population called the Center for Disease Control