HuGeo Q2 1.3 COVID

HuGeo Q2 1.3 COVID

New Minnesota rules from Governor Walz

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29 weeks first 100,000 cases. 6 weeks to get to 200,000. How long to get to 300,000 cases in MN?

• less than 3 weeks

• yes, less than 21 days to get 100,000 more cases of COVID in Minnesota

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Cases are going up "off the chart". Click all that apply.

• MN COVID cases are reaching an EXTREMELY HIGH level

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According to Governor Walz, we DID keep the curve down. What does that mean? Click all that apply.

• "Cases going off the charts" started in the fall (Oct-Nov). Before that, the case numbers remained lower than those of other states.

• Minnesota kept cases lower and saved lives from March to September.

• don't click this one

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Governor Walz said: "The ground is shifting under our feet each day."

What does this idiom mean. Click all that apply.

• "X is shifting beneath our feet" means that X is changing drastically, right now.

• Like the photo, everything is changing so fast, we have to MOVE NOW to stay standing.

• It means huge changes will have a great effect on us all.

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What is the time shown in this image?

• 2 and a half weeks

• 15-18 days

• Oh, that's awful. So many new infections so fast in Minnesota

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"[COVID cases] will continue to accelerate to ... "

• accelerate means

  increase in amount or extent; COVID cases will increase faster and faster and faster

• to 400,000 and 500,000

• We will get a half a million cases IN MINNESOTA if we don't do something.

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COVID surge. What does surge mean?

• See the next slide for an example of a surge of people. This surge at the Chicago airport happened in March when President Trump said Americans had a limited time to get home from Europe. Our COVID in the USA is from Europe, not China.

• Click all of these boxes.

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Governor Walz said surge of COVID cases in Minnesota follows a predictable timeline, "like clockwork".

• 1.People get the virus (community spread now; nobody knows where they got it).

• 2.After two or three weeks, hospitalizations (people so sick with the virus that they go to the hospital).

• 3.After that people are moved into the ICU (intensive care unit) ...

• 4.and then death. This is the sequence. Click all of these.

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Why does the COVID surge matter? Click all that apply.

• too many hospital workers are sick

• too many people who work in nursing homes are sick (a lot of Como students work in nursing homes) = old people places

• too many police and firefighters are sick

• out state needs to do something to stop the horrible community spread

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"With the spread we have now, it's one or two hundred people in the hospital, it's one or two thousand." What happens when we follow the data?

• "You can extrapolate that we will run out of bed space."

• Extrapolate means that if we follow the data, with so many COVID-infected Minnesotans, there will NOT be enough hospital or ICU beds for everybody who needs them.

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Healthcare workers are getting sick. And their not getting sick at work. They are getting sick in their communities. Click the boxes that talk about community spread.

• Community spread means we don't know who has the virus, so we don't know where people are getting it.

• Many people are asymptomatic; meaning they have COVID but they don't have any symptoms.

• Many people out in the community do NOT know they have COVID and they are spreading it.

• If too many healthcare workers get sick out in the community, we are in REAL trouble.

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"Children and families are bearing the burden of the surge." What does this mean?

• "bearing the burden" means that children and families are having the most problems during this surge

• "Families are struggling to find an impossible balance."

Watch Governor's announcement at minute 13:15

it's about having friends over to your house

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Under the Governor's guidelines, for the next 4 weeks what can you do? Click all that apply.

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Under the Governor's guidelines, for the next 4 weeks what can you do? Click all that apply.

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Under the Governor's guidelines, for the next 4 weeks what can you do? Click all that apply.

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Under the Governor's guidelines, for the next 4 weeks what can you do? Click all that apply.

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Under the Governor's guidelines, what is allowed for the next 4 weeks?

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What are the guidelines from the Governor? What does paused mean?

• The new executive order begins at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 20 and continues through Friday, Dec. 18.

• We can do these things again on December 18, maybe. It depends on how well we are doing with COVID spread.

• He's calling the pause "Dial Back to Save Lives".

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Under the Governor's guidelines, for the next 4 weeks what can you do? Click all that apply.

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So, you can have a wedding, you just can't have a party. Click below what is allowed under the new guidelines.

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Gov. Tim Walz announces new guidance and restrictions for Minnesota. The new executive order begins at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 20 and continues through Friday, Dec. 18. Which is true below about risk?

• You can get a haircut if you and the haircutter wear a mask: masks lower risks.

• You can go shopping if you make it quick and wear a mask. Fast and with a mask lowers risk.

• What carries the most risk? Sitting, eating, and drinking with friends, indoors, for a longer period of time, with no masks.

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IN CONCLUSION: it's only 4 weeks! We can do this! It's awful, but it's only a short time! Click all that you will do: