- Health officials are begging us to help “flatten the curve” of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
- But what does it mean to flatten the curve, and why is it so important?
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In all the drama surrounding the novel coronavirus pandemic, it can be hard to navigate a whole new world of phrases and terms. One of the terms you’ve probably heard a lot about is “flattening the curve,” but what does that even mean, and why is it so important to help us make it through this difficult situation?
Before we talk about flattening the curve it’s best to understand that it applies to how an illness — in this case, COVID-19 — spreads in a population. If you were to plot the number of infections on a graph, it wouldn’t go up in a straight diagonal line. When left unchecked, or if we don’t do enough to prevent new infections, the rate of new cases increases exponentially, with many times more people affected each day.
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Flatten the curve: The only way America can handle the coronavirus pandemic originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 13 Mar 2020 at 12:42:03 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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