1/ Q: A few weeks ago, everyone was talking about the "peak" of the #pandemic. Now, not so much. Places are reopening and it feels like everything is going back to normal. Does this mean we're past the peak?
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A: A lot of modelers stopped talking about the "peak" as our thinking about longer-term outbreak control matured. It also became clearer that, at least in some places, we are not able to zip up #SocialDistancing enough to make it work well--or it was ending too early.
3/ Case counts are likely to increase as places begin to reopen. This might feel like a scene from the classic Bill Murray film Groundhog Day: another shutdown, new social distancing orders, and everyone talking about #ventilators again.
4/ To help visual and interactive learners learn why, our very own @malia_ailam designed a game! Learn why social distancing works, why it's important to have the same closed set of contacts with set rules, and why opening too early is the worst idea. apl.wisc.edu/covid
5/ You can use this for your kids' end-of-year science projects too. She made it with kids in mind, and even wrote a list of experiments they can try.
Especially relevant here is experiment #4: when can we lift social distancing?
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Spoiler alert: if you lift #SocialDistancing as soon as the peak ends, the number of cases goes right back up to an even higher peak.
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