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The document asks questions about pandemics, COVID-19, economic consequences during pandemics, ways to avoid illness, environmental problems faced by humans, and how pollution affects health. It provides answers defining a pandemic, describing COVID-19 symptoms and transmission, listing economic impacts and environmental issues, and explaining how air pollution can increase acute and chronic disease risks.

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Solution: Loss of Companies Contracts of Workers and Farmers

The document asks questions about pandemics, COVID-19, economic consequences during pandemics, ways to avoid illness, environmental problems faced by humans, and how pollution affects health. It provides answers defining a pandemic, describing COVID-19 symptoms and transmission, listing economic impacts and environmental issues, and explaining how air pollution can increase acute and chronic disease risks.

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read the text and answer the question with your own words
1. What is a pandemic?
2. What is COVID-19?
3. What are the economic consequences for populations during a pandemic?
4. Make a list of human actions to avoid an illness.
5. What are the environmental problems that we as a human face?
6. How does pollution affects our health?

Solution
1. ¿ what is a pandemic ?

an epidemic that spreads to many countries or that attacks almost all the
individuals of a locality or region. "a flu pandemic"

2. What is COVID-19?
Covid 19 is a worldwide pandemic that started in china atar 14 days of
being exposed and may include: fever, Cough, Shortness of breath or
difficulty breathing, Fatigue, Dolores, Sore throat, Headache, Diarrhea,
Vomiting

3. What are the economic consequences for populations during a


pandemic?
Loss of companies contracts of workers and farmers

4. Make a list of human actions to avoid an illness.


There is currently no vaccine to prevent coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19
• The best way to prevent disease is to avoid
exposure to this virus.
• The virus is thought to spread mainly from person
to person.
o Between people who are in close contact (at a
distance of up to about 6 feet).
o Through respiratory droplets that are produced
when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or speaks.
o These droplets can end up in the mouth or nose of
those who are nearby or possibly be inhaled and
reach the lungs.
o Some recent studies suggest that COVID-19 can
be spread through people with no symptoms.
 5. What are the environmental problems that we as a human face?

  Climate change
  Contamination
  Deforestation
  Soil degradation
  Energy
  Water shortage
  Extinction of species and loss of biodiversity
  Invasion and illegal trafficking of species

6. How does pollution affects our healt

according to the World Health Organization (WHO)


"urban air pollution increases the risk of suffering
from acute respiratory diseases, such as pneumonia,
and chronic diseases, such as lung cancer and
cardiovascular diseases." Air pollution affects in
different ways in the short and long term, and the
effects are more susceptible in groups such as
children, the elderly or people who are already
affected by a previous disease.

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