Previous studies have supported an epidemiological hypothesis that cold and dry (low absolute humidity) environments facilitate the survival and spread of droplet-mediated viral diseases, and warm and humid environments see attenuated viral transmission. However, the role of absolute humidity in transmission of COVID-19 has not yet been established. As the Quality Director and a reputable disease expert, you will be asked for an interview on TV. You have a week before the interview and want to design a laboratory experiment to test the effect of ambient temperature and humidity on the transmission activity of the virus. This study is critically important in order to estimate the magnitude of the outbreak as spring and summer months will be soon arriving in the North Hemisphere..
- Elaborate on the procedure and checklist for designing such an experiment Hoew di you decide on the inputs and their range of the levels?
- Design your fictitious experiment, create a dataset yourself and analyze using Minitab. Report your findings as you will do on the TV show. Submit your worksheet and analysis in a separate Minitab project file.
- Create an activity flowchart for your interns to follow if they are to repeat a similar experiment.
- What are the values you have specified for Type I error and Type II error and why?
-. During the times of a contagious outbreak, what will be a typical Kano Model that you need to draw taking into requirements of all stakeholders such as the hospitalized patients, caretakers of hospitalized patients, regular incoming patients, doctors, nurses, public and state health officials.
- As the Quality Director, what will be the key elements of a Quality System that you should have applied during “normal” times and how should you adjust them to handle the times of crisis?