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Re:Shutdowns prevented 60M coronavirus infections in the U.S... by oarabbus_ on Monday June 08, 2020 @04:12PM (#23460249)
The latter. That's always what "flattening the curve" has meant. The total area under the curve (i.e. total unique infected individuals) stays about the same.
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Re:Shutdowns prevented 60M coronavirus infections in the U.S... by thephyber on Monday June 08, 2020 @07:26PM (#23461915)
"Flattening the curve" is not the only possible outcome.

A cure, an inoculation, or segmenting geographic regions until localized herd immunity (like New Zealand just did) are all examples of cutting the curve short.

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Re:Shutdowns prevented 60M coronavirus infections in the U.S... by oarabbus_ on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:13PM (#23470372)
Vaccines are far away from approval for widespread use, and New Zealand's situation as an island nation is not applicable to something like 98% of the World's population and quite frankly, irrelevant to the discussion.
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