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  • every country facing a new epidemic asks, How big is this going to get and how fast?

  • When a virus spreads, the number of people who are infected can quickly rise.

  • This sharp increase can overload the health care system with sick patients who need intensive care.

  • One solution is to increase the health care system's capacity.

  • Whether that's by building hospitals training, additional doctors are buying more equipment.

  • But that takes time, and resource is which countries don't always have during an epidemic.

  • Another option is to slow the spread of the virus, something experts call flattening the curve.

  • If you look at the curves of outbreaks, you know they go big peaks and they come down.

  • What we need to do is flattened that down.

  • That would have less people infected that would ultimately have less deaths.

  • This is done by relying on people in the community to use protective measures to help slow the spread of the virus.

  • What kind of protective measures were talking about the basics washing your hands, sneezing into a tissue where your elbow avoiding large gatherings and staying home if you're sick?

  • Closing schools and canceling events can also help slow the transmission of the virus in areas where there's community spread.

  • The goal is not necessarily to reduce the overall number of cases, although that is often a positive side effect but rather just spread the cases out over an extended period of time.

  • This means the health care system will be able to treat critical patients as they come in and better cope with the strain that outbreaks place on the medical system.

  • So even if you're not in a high risk group by practicing simple public health measures, you'll be helping save others lives.

every country facing a new epidemic asks, How big is this going to get and how fast?

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