Assignment task: Chapter 3 discusses types of epidemiologic measurements. Please read the article below (from the height of the wave in NYC in April 2020) by following the link - cite your sources as needed.
Questions:
Q1- What is a count? Please define and provide examples from the article.
Q2- What is incidence of disease? Please define and provide examples of incidence rate from the article.
Q3- What is prevalence? Using the article as an example, and using figure 3-8 as a guide, what increases and decrease the prevalence of Covid-19?
Q4- More generally, we know that testing for the coronavirus was lacking all across the US at the beginning of the pandemic, and now with the rise of the omicron variant and sub-variants in spring 2022, many people are using home antigen tests. In your opinion, how do both scenarios