… or, realistically, does it just postpone the inevitable?
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How many times have we heard: “Flattening the curve will save lives… maybe millions of them”?
Let’s hit the pause button and review the theoretical basics and what we’ve learned.
This is the conceptual drawing of the “flattening curve” we’ve had flashed at us a zillion times.
Time is on the horizontal axis,; number of deaths(or cases) are on the vertical axis; the high humped curve is the number of deaths (or cases) each day with no mitigation; the shallow curve is is the number of deaths (or cases) each day with with mitigation; and the white dotted line is hospital capacity.
OK, let’s unpack the curve…
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