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  1. Jan 2026
    1. integrates information on and includes applications of the concepts

      this was very helpful while reading. Seeing information and application gave great example and made it much easier to understand.

    2. interventions to curb its spread and remediate its impact

      We can take what we have learned from COVID-19 and the information from medicine and sociology to help us deal with future sicknesses/pandemics.

    3. hy are physicians more supportive of physician assistants than they are of nurse practitioners?

      I dint know that there were certain "clicks/allies" in professional healthcare settings.

    4. Physician-Patient Relationship

      How people perceive physicians is important because if you want people to come and receive help they need to know that the physicians will be kind and helpful. The relationship between physicians and patients is important.

    5. Sociologists study health, healing, and illness because they are a central part of the human experience

      peoples health is a "central part of human experience", it is a great topic for sociologists to study because it tell s a lot about humans.

    6. early mitigation strategies

      Strategies included limiting social interaction, inequality in the health system such as social locations, and different beliefs that people had about COVID-19.

    7. incomes under US$25,000, to live in rural areas, and to have just a high school education or less (Kricorian, Civen, and Equils 2022).

      This part of the paragraph recognizes that people that have vaccine hesitancy tend to be a part of lower class or have less of an education than those who don't have vaccine hesitancy. I think that this shows how people from different walks of life have different opinions.

    8. xcess mortality

      I have never heard of this term before. I have also never understood how they collected death counts before. It really puts into perspective the numbers.

    9. death toll of over 6 million, while the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported US deaths exceeding 1 million.

      I found that It was really important to see in numbers how covid affected our society. I am curious about how two different organizations got such different numbers. I am thinking that CDC and prevention stopped keeping track or something after one million. But see six million versus one million really helps someone reading this understand how much it affect us.