Presentation for the Nonprofit Commons and ISTE Games & Simulations Network on March 6, 2020. Features trivia questions and answers that depend in some cases on your perspective.

1. What Can Educators and Nonprofits Do
to Protect Against COVID-19?
Nonprofit Commons
ISTE Games & Simulations Network
Dr. Cynthia Calongne,
Colorado Technical University,
Colorado Community Colleges Online,
Workshop in Second Life on March 6, 2020

2. Coronavirus is SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19
It is a severe attack respiratory disease related to the
coronaviruses SARS and MERS
What can we do to prevent its spread?
Universal Studios. (2010). Despicable me [Motion picture].

3. Global Cases March 6, 2020 1:33 am EST
Johns Hopkins University. (2020).
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

4. Sweden – UAR + Daily Cases
Johns Hopkins University. (2020).
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

5. Hubei-Wuhan cases, deaths & recovered
Johns Hopkins University. (2020).
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

6. Latest cases March 6 2020 3:23 am
Johns Hopkins University. (2020).
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

7. Ellen wants to help protect you from
getting the Coronavirus
https://youtu.be/8WpFva5PYnU

8. Safe Practices - true or false?
1. A mask protects you from infection.
2. Using a hand sanitizer will kill the virus.
3. If you sneeze or get a cough, go straight to the hospital.
4. If you traveled from Italy, South Korea, or China two weeks ago, it
is ok to travel in the U.S.
5. If someone in your home has COVID-19, drop them off at the
hospital and go to school or work.
6. You can attend large gatherings if not COVID-19 positive

9. How did you do?
1. A mask protects you from infection. False
2. Using a hand sanitizer will kill the virus. False
3. If you sneeze or get a cough, go straight to the hospital. False
4. If you traveled from Italy, South Korea, or China two weeks ago, it is ok
to travel in the U.S. False
5. If someone in your home has COVID-19, drop them off at the hospital
and go to school or work. False. Isolate yourself.
6. You can attend large gatherings if not COVID-19 positive. Maybe. You
are fine, but you may contract and spread the virus.

10. Alcohol
60-95%
Bleach
Peroxide
Fighting Coronavirus
See the EPA list of COVID-19 products
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2020-03/documents/sars-cov-2-list_03-03-2020.pdf
Apply sanitizer to clean hands & let dry
Do not wipe to remove the excess
Beware of sanitizers
with < 60% alcohol
All three chemicals
fight COVID-19
Brands include
Clorox & Lysol

11. Myth or Truth?
1. A mask protects others if you test positive.
2. Stock up on hand sanitizer. Cleans better than soap & water.
3. Is there evidence that Lysol or Clorox kills COVID-19?
4. Travel bans prevent the spread of COVID-19.
5. Self-quarantine yourself after contact with an infected person.
6. The seasonal flu is more dangerous than COVID-19.
7. The virus came from eating bats, snakes, or pangolins.

12. Mythbusters
1. A mask protects others if you test positive. Possibly. It may limit the
spread of droplets, but who needs an N95 respirator?
2. Stock up on hand sanitizer. Cleans better than soap & water. False
3. Is there evidence that Lysol or Clorox kills COVID-19? False. It kills other
viruses, but we need more data.
4. Travel bans prevent the spread of COVID-19. False, isolation does
5. Self-quarantine yourself after contact with an infected person. True
6. The seasonal flu is more dangerous than COVID-19. False, the flu has a
mortality rate of .01% and COVID-19 is 2% - 3.4%.
7. The virus came from eating bats, snakes, or pangolins. False

13. Protect Yourself & Others
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public

14. What You Can Do
• Don’t touch your face
– On the average, we touch our faces 20 times an hour. Some do
it 45 times an hour. https://abcn.ws/3csnZCs
• Wash your hands often & on all sides
– Lather all sides, form a steeple, clean between fingers, palms,
back of your hands, & thumbs for 20 seconds
– Sing Happy Birthday to You twice
– Or sing Row, row, row your boat 2-3 times
Do not shake hands – give a bow, wave, and a smile

15. Preparedness Plan
• WHO recommends food for two weeks
– Recovery time is a median of 32 days. If you recover at home, plan
ahead.
• Buy cleansers, soap, & supplies
– Bleach, peroxide, or alcohol, bar soap, and liquid soap
• Need over the counter or prescription meds?
– Supply will be scarce. Plan what you need.
If you get a cough with a fever, keep track of the fever. Check with your
doctor or an emergency care facility.
If your fever rises above 103, get to a hospital.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

16. Symptoms
• Cough, Sore Throat
• Chills
• Fever
– If your fever rises over 103, get help. 105 is deadly
Lungs may harden, pneumonia & respiratory distress
Virus mutated twice
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

17. ROCS. (2020,
March 6). Event
Horizon COVID-
19. Research on
Complex Systems
(ROCS).
http://rocs.hu-
berlin.de/corona
/#modeling-the-
spread-of-covid-
19

18. ROCS. (2020, March 6). Event Horizon COVID-19. Research on Complex Systems (ROCS).
http://rocs.hu-berlin.de/viz/sgb/

19. Shenzhen, China Study (Bi et al., 2020)
• Shenzhen CDC
• 391 SARS-CoV-2 cases from January 14 to February 12, 2020
and 1286 close contacts
• Mean age 45 with 187 males, 204 females
• 91% had mild or moderate clinical severity at initial assessment.
• Three died, 225 recovered (median time to recovery is 32 days)
• Cases isolated an 4.6 days average after developing symptoms
(1.9 less after contact tracing)
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.03.20028423v1

20. Shenzhen, China Study (Bi et al., 2020)
• Household contacts and those travelling with a case where at
higher risk of infection (ORs 6 and 7) than other close contacts.
• The household secondary attack rate was 15%
• Children were as likely to be infected as adults
• The observed reproductive number was 0.4, with a mean serial
interval of 6.3 days.
• Heightened surveillance and isolation with contact tracing,
reduces the time cases are infectious in the community
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.03.20028423v1

21. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/

22. What can we do?
Be prepared
Educate
Mentor
Wash often
Do not touch
Be a good neighbor
Isolate when needed to reduce the spread
Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch predicts 40-70% of the adult
population to be infected with millions dying (1%, conservatively
speaking or up to 2,091,281 adults at a minimum in the US).
https://youtu.be/iDelUkpFm60

23. News References
Thorbecke, C. (2020, March 3). Amazon removes 1 million products for misleading
claims, price gouging amid coronavirus outbreak.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/amazon-cracks-million-misleading-price-gouged-
products-amid/story?id=69357582
ABC. (2020 March 3). Coronavirus reality check: How to avoid germs that may be lurking
at the office. Dr. Syra Madad, senior director of NYC health and hospitals special
pathogens program, shows where germs lurk from our hands to mouths and high touch
areas in the office. https://abcn.ws/3csnZCs
Devlin, H. (2020, March 5). Has Covid-19 mutated into a more deadly strain? Busting the
coronavirus myths. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/05/has-covid-19-
mutated-into-a-more-deadly-strain-busting-the-coronavirus-myths
Tsioulcas, A. (2020, March 5). Coronavirus concerns stymie live music performances and
SXSW. https://www.npr.org/2020/03/05/812487700/coronavirus-concerns-stymie-live-
music-performances-and-sxsw

24. Research References
Epidemiology and Transmission of COVID-19 in Shenzhen China: Analysis of 391
casesand 1,286 of their close contacts. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.03.20028423
Bi , Q., Wu, Y., Mei, S., Ye, C., Zou, X. Zhang, Z., Liu, X, Wei, L., Truelove, S. A., Zhang,
T., Gao, W., Cheng , C., Tang, X., Wu, X., Wu, Y., Sun, B., Huang, S., Sun, Y., Zhang, J.,
Ma, T., Lessler, J., & Feng, T. (2020). Epidemiology and transmission of COVID-19 in
Shenzhen China: Analysis of 391 cases and 1,286 of their close contacts.
https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.03.20028423
Zhang, S., Diao, M., Yu, W., Pei, L., Lin, Z., & Chen, D. (2020). Estimation of the
reproductive number of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the probable outbreak size
on the Diamond Princess cruise ship: A data-driven analysis. International Journal of
Infectious Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.02.033
Young, K. 2020, March 3). COVID-19: Secondary attack rate / Equivolcal Lopinavir-
Ritonavir results. https://www.jwatch.org/fw116413/2020/03/03/covid-19-secondary-
attack-rate-equivocal-lopinavir

25. Technical Tips & Research
EPA. (2020). EPA’s registered antimicrobial products for use against novel
coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the cause of COVID-19.
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2020-03/documents/sars-cov-2-
list_03-03-2020.pdf
Ebbs, S. (2020, March 5). EPA releases list of approved disinfectants to kill
coronavirus, and why homemade sanitizer won’t work.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/epa-releases-list-disinfectant-products-
approved-kill-covid/story?id=69412861
Hou, C. (2020). 6 dangerous myths about coronavirus.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/486114-6-
dangerous-myths-about-coronavirus
Begley, S. (2020, February 14). Disease modelers gaze into their computers to see the
future of Covid-19, and it isn’t good. https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/14/disease-
modelers-see-future-of-covid-19/

26. Additional links
Tsioulcas, A. (2020, March 5). Coronavirus concerns stymie live music performances and
SXSW. https://www.npr.org/2020/03/05/812487700/coronavirus-concerns-stymie-live-
music-performances-and-sxsw
Eckert, A, & Higgins, D. (2019). 2019-nCoV-CDC-23312 without background.png [Image].
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library (PHIL).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus#/media/File:2019-nCoV-CDC-
23312_without_background.png
Kurtz, J. (2020, March 3). Ellen DeGeneres gives tutorial on hand-washing amid
coronavirus outbreak. https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/485693-ellen-
degeneres-gives-tutorial-on-hand-washing-amid-coronavirus

27. Questions?
Stay safe!

28. Courtesy of Gentle Heron and social media