Optiоnаl up tо 2 pоints of extrа credit: Shown is the cumulаtive risk and burden of sequelae in populations infected one or more times with SARS-CoV-2 compared with uninfected controls from a study of 5,819,264 people (Acute and postacute sequelae associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection, Bowe, Xie & Ziyad Al-Aly, Nature Medicine volume 28, pages 2398–2405 (2022)). Data for a number of outcomes is visualized as the hazard ratio (HR) and excess burden per 1,000 persons for one, two, and three or more infections compared to uninfected controls. Outcomes (starting from top left and ranging to bottom left) include hospitalization, at least one sequela, cardiovascular, coagulation and hematological, diabetes, fatigue, gastrointestinal, kidney, mental health, musculoskeletal, neurological, and pulmonary. Figure 1. Cumulative risk and burden of sequelae in people with one (green), two (red), and three or more (purple) SARS-CoV-2 infections compared to noninfected controls. Copyright 2024 by Dr. Jonathan A. Miller. All rights reserved. Online sharing or distribution is prohibited. For exam use only in BIOL& 260: Microbiology at Edmonds College. Outside help is not allowed. 1. What does this data suggest repeat infections by SARS-CoV-2 are doing to the population studied? Please explain. Include information and descriptions from the graph to support your explanation. 2. Propose an explanation as to what the virus might be doing to result in this trend. 3. Comment briefly on the sample size of this study - should this sample size give us confidence in this work? Why or why not? 4. Considering the excess burden bar graphs to the right, what might be the impact of this information on the healthcare system in the U.S.?
Exаm Questiоn: Cоnsider the fоllowing models of the spike protein of the Deltа аnd Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2, causative agent of the current coronavirus pandemic. Individual mutations are identified in red; number denotes amino acid location in the protein. Image courtesy of New York Times and COG-UK Mutation Explorer http://sars2.cvr.gla.ac.uk/cog-uk/ Copyright 2024 by Dr. Jonathan A. Miller. All rights reserved. Online sharing or distribution is prohibited. For exam use only in BIOL& 260: Microbiology at Edmonds College. Outside help is not allowed. 1. Do you think these mutations represent antigenic drift or antigenic shift? Explain, including in your answer a definition of both antigenic drift and antigenic shift. 2. Which of these two strains (Delta or Omicron) would you predict would be more likely to demonstrate "immune escape" from the originally developed (2020-2021) vaccines, i.e., the vaccines would be less protective against? Why is this? Please number your answers 1 and 2 and explain briefly but thoroughly.
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