How to pronounce “flatten the curve”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (epidemiology, colloquial) To reduce the rate at which an infection spreads during an epidemic, decreasing the number of active cases at any given time by increasing the period of time over which numbers of similar cases occur.

Practice Nearby Words

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