Across
- 3. A machine that provides mechanical ventilation by moving breathable air into and out of the lungs, to deliver breaths to a patient who is physically unable to breathe, or breathing insufficiently.
- 4. Abbreviation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- 9. The confirmation that a person does have a specific disease or illness after being testing for having it.
- 12. A specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.
- 13. Slowing the spread of this virus over time using social distancing, which looks like a lower, smoother curve on the chart.
- 14. A state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals that have arrived from elsewhere or been exposed to infectious or contagious disease are placed.
- 17. President of the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
- 19. An object normally worn on the face, typically for protection, disguise, performance, or entertainment.
- 20. A set of non-pharmaceutical interventions or measures intended to prevent the spread of a contagious disease by maintaining a physical distance between people and reducing the number of times people come into close contact with each other.
Down
- 1. Abbreviation for personal protection equipment.
- 2. Sudden increase in occurrences of a disease in a particular time and place.
- 5. (Of a disease) able to be transmitted from one sufferer to another; contagious or infectious.
- 6. An infectious disease caused by an infectious agent such as a bacterium or virus that has jumped from a non-human animal to a human.
- 7. A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.
- 8. A substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.
- 10. Any of a group of RNA viruses that cause a variety of respiratory, gastrointestinal, and neurological diseases in humans and other animals. AKA the deadly disease that caused the 2020 pandemic.
- 11. Employees within essential industries who must physically show up to their jobs.
- 15. (Of a condition or a person) producing or showing no symptoms.
- 16. Doctor and chief scientist in charge of overseeing COVID-19 spread and vaccine production in the USA.
- 18. The ability of an organism to resist a particular infection or toxin by the action of specific antibodies or sensitized white blood cells.