MD-PhD | Physician-Scientist | 🧬 x 🧠 x 👨🏻💻 | Adjunct Professor, Neuroscience, UP College of Medicine; TMTCS Med | Tweets mine, RTs not endorsements. 🇵🇭
May 8, 2020 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
Do you actually know what the "curve" in "flattening the curve" is?
Is it the change in:
A. The cumulative (since day 1) number of cases
B. The number of new cases per day
C. The per-day total number of cases
...plotted against time?
Read on. I'll help you out. 1/
If you chose B, you answered incorrectly. The change in the number of new cases with respect to time only partly reflects the actual rate of transmission. 2/