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Katie Connor
Katie Connor

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Covid-19 ER Diagram

Growing up with social media, millennial's have seen the consequences and repercussion that in can have in out day to day lives. This can include less face to face interactions, an easy distraction, and an outlet for exaggerated or fake news. As we are in the midst of a global-pandemic, behind covid, fake news is another thing that should not be spread around. In a recent discovery, there have been many misleading articles millennials are reading which are causing an extreme response or no response at all to the safety precautions that are put in place by the local governments.
Below is a diagram I created to show the various factors that each person should take into consideration when thinking about their risk of getting covid.

Entities and Relationships
In the center of the diagram is the starting point- the person or potential patient. I placed this in the middle of the diagram because it is the main focus and the starting point to reading the chart.
To the left of person, is the entity behavior. This is the activities in which the person is choosing to partake in throughout the pandemic. The more behaviors one takes part in, the more at risk one is to contracting the virus.
Going back to the middle of the chart, to the right of person is the location entity. The location can effect how likely one is to getting covid if they choose to follow health guidelines. The stricter the rules, the less likely someone is to getting Covid. I chose to add two more entities to location because they are both effected by where the person is living. This includes where they work and the closest hospital they would go to if they needed to be placed into a hospitals care. The place in which they work is super important because it could keep them home or place them at a higher risk based on who they are in contact with on a day to day basis.
The last entity I chose to relate to a person is how at risk they may be, without having anything to do with where they are or what they are doing. This includes prior health concerns, such as breathing issues (asthma), being immunocompromised, etc., other risks include age and hygiene- like washing hands often, using hand sanitizer.

I chose to include entities that have strong relationships with the subject of the diagram. This is because it is more broad and can be applied to everyone and they can see the various factors that put one at risk of catching covid.
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Here is a video of me talking about the diagram in more detail, enjoy!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BW_weNUvobht7iDQ64OJMjwmhuZXkIzA/view

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