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>Flattening total or active case numbers is what flattening the curve usually means. When I clicked on it, the very first thing at the top was a graph showing
by xoa 7y ago
>Flattening total or active case numbers is what flattening the curve usually means.
When I clicked on it, the very first thing at the top was a graph showing "the number of newly reported cases each day". Since cases cycle out of the total too as the disease runs its course one way or another, if the number of new cases per day becomes flat and/or begins declining then so too will the total number of active cases (after a lag) right? Are you seeing something different from me in the article? I have uBO and NS on but whitelist the nytimes.com and nyt.com domains.
- mkl 7y agoThe units of the graph are cases/day. It's a growth rate. If it stays constant (flat), then the total number of cases will increase in a straight line. If it decreases to zero, the active cases will disappear a few weeks later.
- xoa 7y ago>If it stays constant (flat), then the total number of cases will increase in a straight line. What? After a set period of time, active cases become past cases. People recover (or die). If the number of new cases per day is flat, than the total number of active cases will also become flat (after a delay if it was growing previously). If the number of new cases per day declines, the number of active cases will also decline (all the way down to zero as you say if the number of new cases drops to zero). I am genuinely confused by what you're writing here. "Number of new cases per day" isn't the same thing as an increasing rate of new cases per day.
- mkl 6y agoI meant total cases, not active cases. Total cases can't go down, as it is just everyone confirmed, active, recovered, or dead. You are right about active cases.