> I understood this to mean flattening the curve is important, but not enough. Containment is the most critical intervention Containment is enforced to flatten

> I understood this to mean flattening the curve is important, but not enough. Containment is the most critical intervention Containment is enforced to flatten the curve. That's the whole point. It's not an either/or thing. And the whole point of flattening the curve is to avoid saturating healthcare services with an exponential increase in demand concentrated in a span of a couple of weeks. The article is crap.