Police told not to download NHS Covid-19 app

Re:Police told not to download NHS Covid-19 app by pbhjpbhj on Monday September 28, 2020 @05:16PM (#24621314)

Surely they're identical? Flattening the curve means preventing as far as possible further community infections so that the infection rate stays low. Obviously it can't do anything about infections that have already happened, nor about new infections in situations where isolation is beyond practicable.

Containing the virus is the same, preventing ongoing community infections, etc.. Different words for the same overarching activity.

Maybe "containing" would have been a better description, arguably it wouldn't have allowed laxities to be introduced for economic reasons without it being more apparent; which goes against UK governments playbook it seems.

Did any countries public service messaging refer to "containing"?

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Re:Police told not to download NHS Covid-19 app by LudwigNagasena on Monday September 28, 2020 @06:20PM (#24621836)

Surely they are two absolutely different things with different goals. Nobody was talking about reducing the total number of cases, where did you get this idea from?

Just look at any article when the idea of “flattening the curve” entered the news, e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/article/flatten-curve-coronavirus.ht...

Drew Harris, a population health analyst at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia that is cited in this NYTimes article, has said:

>Important to remember that #Covid-19 epidemic control measures may only delay cases, not prevent.

and

>Without a vaccine, eventually everyone is likely to be exposed to the virus. Some won't get sick, some will have mild illness, some severe, and a few will die. The goal is to put this off for as long as possible so we have time to prepare and spread out the surge of cases.

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