Question

Relate the concepts of population ecology, including population distributions, growth curves, and species interactions to the recent coronavirus pandemic. In your answer, relate recent patterns of COVID-19 and predict future patterns based on reasoning from these concepts. Your answer should demonstrate your understanding of population ecology

Answer 1

Population Ecology is the study of how population -of plants and animals and other organisms- change over time and space and interact with their environment. Populations are group of organisms of same species living in the same area at the same time .They are described by characteristics that include

• population size
• population density
• population growth

Coronavirus are group of virus that are seen in humans .Corona is Latin for crown that its effects looks like a Crown under an electron microscope .It outbreaks of new disease in recent history were caused by coronavirus -SARS in 2003 that resulted in around 1000 death and months in 2012 that resulted in 862 death.

Zooming out to 30 days from reaching 1 confirmed case per million residents you can see China was able to continue to flatten the growth, as was South Korea.

Italy stands out, which is still seeing exponential growth, as does Switzerland, Spain, the United States, and Germany.

While these plots may make it appear that the United States is middle of the pack in terms of coronavirus case growth, looking at raw coronavirus cases paints a very different picture.

Since the Global spread of COVID19 is pandemic and has impacted the global economy at the drop of distribution we have to set a vision for medium and long term action that will Rapid recovery in the economy.

So in future if mass gathering is avoided for actions will be proportional to the risk in the community so that so that there will be no increasing transmission of virus.

China 80,000 75,000 70,000 65,000 60,000 55,000 50,000 45,000 40,000 35,000 330,000 Italy Number Of Confirmed Coronavirus Cases 5 25,000 United States Spain Germany 20,000 15,000 10,000 France South Korea 5,000 - Swizerland United Kingdom 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Number of days Since Reaching 1 Confirmed Case Per Million Residents (1/1,000,000)