Stop the Pandemic: Step 3: Analyze the Facts: Global and National Statistics
Step 3: Analyze the Facts
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3.1. Introduction to Step 3: Analyze the Facts
The Most Important Fact: More Than 500,000 People Have Died in Our Country!
In Step 3, the objective is to analyze and evaluate the data/information about the spread of the pandemic. After reviewing and analyzing these trends, you will discuss what is the most important information you have learned and what do you think the future looks like? What is the best case scenario? Is it possible that this pandemic will become endemic? Like the flu? Something that require annual vaccinations? Or like the measles? Something that can be eliminated altogether over time with enough vaccinations?
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Democratic and Academic Competencies
In this third step, you should try to use and apply the following Academic and Democratic Competencies as you review the COVID-19 statistics and articles.
Critical Thinking Skills:
- Analyze and evaluate statistics and articles.
- Synthesize data and information to develop an overall understanding of the pandemic.
3.2. National and Worldwide Trends
Here are the topics and statistics we provide in this Step 3:
- Cumulative total cases: worldwide and United States
- Cumulative total deaths: worldwide and United States
- Daily new cases: worldwide and United States
- Daily new deaths: worldwide and United States
- Cumulative total vaccinations: worldwide and United States
- Average daily deaths: states and territories
- States currently most at risk
- Vaccinations: states and territories
- Vaccine supply projections
- Death rate projections in the United States in the short run
- What is the future of this virus in the long run? An endemic future?
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3.3. What Did You Learn From Reviewing These Trends? Do You Think We Are Going to Have an Endemic Future With COVID-19?
After analyzing and evaluating the data above, share with other students what you learned from these trends. More specifically do you think we are going to have and endemic future with the COVID-19 virus? An endemic future means that the virus "will continue to circulate in pockets of the global population for years to come."
3.4. Next Steps
In this third step–analyze the facts, you have reviewed the world-wide and national COVID-19 statistics to get a better understanding of the breadth and depth of this Pandemic.
You then shared with other students what you think is the most important information and what you think is the most likely scenario in the future? Will COVID-19 be more like the flu or more like measles?
In Step 4, you will listen again to the stories of survivors and frontline workers about the pandemic and this time you will reflect on the values that helped them survive and cope with the pandemic. Then you will share your own stories about the pandemic or stories you have heard about and which have deeply affected you, focusing on the values in those stories.
In Step 5, you will listen to speeches and proposal advocating ways to stop the pandemic.
In Step 6, you will then develop your own proposal and present your speech.
In Step 7, you will listen to the speeches of other students and seek to take their points of view as you respond to their proposals.
Finally in Step 8, you will coordinate and integrate these different points of view, synthesize these different proposals, and cast your votes (take a survey) where you rate the different proposals and then vote for the three best proposals.
In the next step, you will listen to the stories of survivors and frontline workers and then share your own story or stories that you have heard that have moved you.
Revised 3/4/2021.