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