It's a Small/Interconnected World after All: The Role of Transportation Technologies in Epidemics and Pandemics

Autor/in	Preble, Brian C.
Titel	It's a Small/Interconnected World after All: The Role of Transportation Technologies in Epidemics and Pandemics
Quelle	In: Technology and Engineering Teacher, 80 (2021) 4, S.15-17 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2158-0502
Schlagwörter	Transportation; COVID-19; Pandemics; Influence of Technology; STEM Education; Standards; Systems Approach; Technological Literacy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Verkehrswesen; STEM; Standard; Systemischer Ansatz; Technisches Wissen
Abstract	When individuals discuss the rapid spread and the ease in which the coronavirus (COVID 19) became a pandemic, they often overlook the role of technology. While the masses, politicians, health officials, and the media focus on social distancing and limiting human interaction, the truth remains that transportation technologies played a central role in the spread of this contagion. In fact, technologies have helped spread infectious diseases among and between populations for millennia. Understanding the role transportation technologies play in spreading disease is an essential component of technological literacy and may be the solution to thwarting future pandemics. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01