Flatten The Curve
- Gloss
- (during a disease outbreak) to use public health measures to achieve a more gradual increase and decrease in the number of new cases, spreading the same total number of cases over a longer period of time, as depicted by a gently sloping curved line on a graph:
- Usage
- Flattening the curve will prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed with patients.
- Reference
- dictionary.com
Sanskrit equivalent
नवव्याधिप्रकरणह्रासयति
- Synonyms
- जनसामान्यारोग्यः, वक्रसमतलीकरणम्
- Context
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