analyze the impact of a specific biological weapon on a targeted population. How would this BW attack compare to the response to COVID-19? What changes to preparedness activities do you anticipate considering the COVID-19 response?

If analyzing anthrax or smallpox how would this be compared to covid

In Biological weapons, the disease is spread throughout a population with intent and planning. Some biological weapons, for example: An anthrax spores was deliberately put into letters and was mailed through the US, The letters were used as a vector or carrier to initially deliver into the population. A BW could also be sprayed through the atmosphere or infecting the food and water source. A pandemic spreads through the population by accident or initially spread through natural vectors or carriers

How would this BW attack compare to the response to COVID-19?
First the response in a BW is that to identify the population  and individuals who already got infected by the BW and isolate them similarly to what you do in a pandemic. The second response is to identify the initial vector or the source of the biological weapon, by doing this, we can stop more population from being infected. A good example is the letters from anthrax, it was later identified that the letters were the vectors of anthrax, so mailing was suspended to prevent those letters from infecting other populations. The final step would be the search for a treatment/cure for the BW. This is also the final step for a pandemic

In Covid 19, The virus was spread through human-to human contact and no artificial vector was used. For anthrax it was letters and for small pox it was spread through blankets. The first response for Covid 19 is to Isolate the population or individuals who are infected, this is the same with biological weapons in an effort to lessen the spread of the disease. The second response differs in biological warfare, you need to identify the artificial vector for spreading the disease, for example: stop the mailing system and avoid opening letter to avoid anthrax and avoid the blankets given to avoid the small pox. For the second response in COVID 19, they just isolated the source of the pandemic (China) and prevented anyone from there to enter the country. The final step would be the search for a treatment/cure for the BW. This is also the final step for a pandemic

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