His language also suggested rising and falling epidemic indices tracing bell-curve shapes over time. Even as Farr compared epidemics to natural processes, he knew well that human action, ... Diagrams ...

Past the point of containment, the best hope is to slow a virus down, or "flatten the curve." The idea is to keep the virus from spreading so quickly that it overwhelms our health care system&#039 ...

So you almost get like a bell shaped curve. Here, in this case, we are trying to flatten it, so we’re trying to take that bell shaped curve and push it down so the peak is not so high.

As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States topped 1 million and states began reopening, USA TODAY’s Editorial Board spoke on Tuesday with Dr. Tom Inglesby, a leading ...

How the COVID-19 curve ... public health officials have urged citizens to "flatten the curve" — the figure in question being the bell-shaped curve of ... During the Spanish flu epidemic, ...

Those who are reading and listening to news ravenously about the outbreak of COVID-19 have probably heard the term “flatten the curve” bandied about in recent days and weeks.

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared coronavirus a pandemic, reflecting alarm that countries aren’t working quickly and aggressively enough to fight the disease it causes, covid-19.