Balinbin, Leidie Stephanie | De Santos, Franco Yves | Samot, Bradnie | Sibugan,

Janrenz | Suarez, Aaron -STEM 123

-INTRODUCTION-
Vectors and Physical Quantities are relevant topics
that are encountered in the life of Physics. These two
topics are interrelated together as they are one of the
fundamentals for this subject. There are different
Physical Quantities like Scalars and Linear Motion.
Meanwhile, Vectors are also physical quantities but it
contains a magnitude and also a direction is
mentioned. These two topics in Physics are the ones
that will be helpful not just on the lesson itself but in
real life. For one, the two quantities are useful in real-
life situations regarding force and velocity. Like
knowing which direction, a person will aim with an
arrow or the angle you need to get the perfect result
for an experiment, these two physical quantities are
very useful in real-life situations. And today, the topic
of physical and vector quantities is still being applied
in the time of a pandemic. There are certain sectors in
our country where the topic of physical quantities and
vector will be useful. Like the medical sector, which
we are going to use in this case study as we thought
it is important for every person to know about how
vector and scalar takes effect and gives relation to the
medical sector in this time of a pandemic.

-THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND THE MEDICAL SECTOR-

Our world experiences a pandemic today. A virus is being spread and can kill numerous
lives if not treated. Government and Health workers have released ways on how we can
prevent on spreading this type of virus. Some of the ways are sanitizing, washing of
hands, and wearing of masks. We can see that the world is in need of healthcare
necessities like masks, gloves, alcohol, etc. Because of this virus, these necessities were
high in demand to some countries.
 -PRESENTED STUDIES-
This following portion will present studies that show the effect and relation of the medical sector in this
pandemic with the Vector and Physical Quantities.

-STUDY ONE-

Figure 1
The Figure 1 graph shows the sales of the
country Ireland in hand sanitizers in the
time of COVID-19 pandemic.

On the article released by Retailtimes’ Fiona Briggs (2020) regarding the increased sales
of hand sanitizers in the time of COVID-19, it shows that the trend of the graph reached
the all-time high during the month of February. The sales of hand sanitizers reached
almost 30, 000 Euros with over 80,000 sales. Yet, the trend remains high even as days
progress. As hand sanitizers is a must for COVID-19 prevention, sales for the said product
increased as people are worried with the pandemic. This also caused panic buying which
is another reason why the trend increased. It shows that the people are worried and
scared with the threat of COVID-19 even though during that time, there was no confirmed
case.

-STUDY TWO-

Figure 2
The Figure 2 graph shows the availability
of hospital clinic PPE, sanitation, and
functional diagnostics and therapeutics
across nationally representative samples
of hospitals in 5 low-income countries.

As countries try to strive with the COVID-19 pandemic, some countries tend to struggle
when it comes to surviving with the pandemic. This applies especially to low-income
countries. McMahon, et al. (2020) studied 5 different countries with one of the lowest
income rates. Afghanistan, D.R Congo, Haiti, Nepal and Tanzania were the ones shown in
the graph. These countries suffer the most as the lack of budget for healthcare equipment
for each country increases whereas the demand increases as well. Figure 2 shows that all
of the 5 countries in this study were struggling when it comes to the supply of Personal
Protective Equipment for their health workers. It also shows very low percentage of
supplies of face masks with only 24% to 51% acquiring any version of face masks. Also, a
very low percentage of supply of eye protection was shown in the graph which ranges
from 3% to 22% as protection is needed by the healthcare workers as they are exposed
to the patients with COVID-19.