Dear Anita

I started exploring different career paths for health science majors and the field is likely to grow by 11% between 2020-2026 which is really quite cool. Some career paths in health sciences were health services coordinator which helps spread awareness about prevention and testing of diseases and they often work in hospitals or with OSHA which I find interesting. Another career path in health sciences is working in the biotechnology industry helping take the research other scientists do and running clinical trials on it and seeing how a drug or a medical device such as an ultrasound might work. The job in health science fields is expected to grow by about 20,000 in the next few years which is exciting. Another career path in health sciences is becoming a medical assistant or community health provider and they help with testing people for diseases and work with doctors on treatments with people as well as providing awareness to people about the disease and some of them are counselors that help relieve the stress people feel when they have a disease. So I have three potential career paths in health sciences: health services coordinator, clinical health specialist, or community health medical assistant. I am going to explore more because it’s so interesting. I also started reading the National Institutes of Health page on the coronavirus and it’s quite interesting. The National Institutes of Health says that they used an electron microscope to look at the SARS-CoV-2 which is the virus isolated from human cells that causes coronavirus symptoms. The National Institutes of Health states that the SARS-CoV-2 virus can last on aerosol, stainless steel and other surfaces for long periods of time (around thirty days) which is why if a person touches the surface that the virus is on there is a chance that they may get the coronavirus. Since the symptoms of coronavirus take 2-14 days to appear in a person, many people do not know that they have the symptoms which is why it has spread quite quickly.  SARS-CoV-2 stands for “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2″ and it is the virus that is currently causing coronavirus outbreaks in the world. In 2002-2003, there was another virus called SARS-CoV-1 that caused the sars disease in China and scientists have found similarities between the sars disease and the current coronavirus disease. Since the sars disease has not been seen since 2004 due to intensive isolation measures and sanitation efforts, scientists are also asking people to practice social distancing and sanitation efforts as a way to control the coronavirus because they have found out that it is similar to the sars disease in 2004. The reason why scientists think that the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) is resulting in more cases than the sars disease (SARS-CoV-1) is that the coronavirus symptoms take longer to appear and people will go out and about when they don’t show symptoms and that since the coronavirus lasts on surfaces for a long period of time it spreads more quickly.

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New coronavirus stable for hours on surfaces” nih.gov March 17, 2020