re: Rand vs Faucci yesterday

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Good for Rand!

Below is part of a discussion we had here in May, with an illustration I put together making the same point. Flattening the curve was never about preventing cases. It was about preventing hospital overload.

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Flattening the curve was never about getting "on the back end of it" or getting "past it."

Flattening the curve served ONE PURPOSE ONLY -- to prevent overflooding of our hospital care capacity. Flattening the curve had nothing to do with lowering total cases. It was to prevent a surge of cases over a short timeframe.

Relative to the question you posed without apparently knowing the answer, this is how a curve works:



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