It has fomented a deep and profound social reckoning, and conversations about the roots and consequences of social inequalities.
) is an assistant professor at Brown University who specializes in computational biology and genetics.
While the contagiousness estimates and predictions for worldwide spread may have been humbling, the notion that the virus driving Covid-19 manifests as mild symptoms in most people infected created a sense of social comfort in many. And while the average case fatality rate for Covid-19 sits near 1 percent, it is far higher for individuals above the age of 70, for those with pre-existing medical conditions, or in poor health.
Surprisingly, the response to these two facts—that I am likely to get this virus, and that it will probably not kill me—has been more than just apathy and naivete, but also the birth of an epidemiological rallying cry urging us all to participate in social distancing in order to “flatten the curve” of disease incidence. This call is colored both by sophisticated mathematical models and by the social justice creed that we as individuals have a duty to act on behalf of the collective.
This convergence between the science and social justice issues that lead to the creation of the “flatten the curve” movement is encapsulated in thepublished an article on the novel coronavirus that featured a graphic developed by visual-data journalist Rosamund Pearce, based on a similar one that had appeared in a 2017 CDC manuscript. The image, and, soon went viral.
The exponential growth curve we’ve observed in many countries suggests that Covid-19 may overwhelm health care systems and other existing infrastructure. The goal of public health interventions should be, therefore, to lower the peak number of cases at a single point in time, early in an epidemic. That is, we should “flatten the curve.
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