This Washington Post article shows how to ‘flatten the curve’ of the coronavirus outbreak

The Washington Post recently published an article that showed how the novel coronavirus can spread rapidly and how the country can help “flatten the curve.”

• Using graphics, the article simulates the spread of a fake disease. The article shows that a sick person can come in contact with a healthy person and infect that individual. A recovered person, according to this article, can’t transmit the illness.
• The graphics show the number of cases climbing with less social distancing. But with more social distancing, the amount of sick people infecting healthy people goes down, according to the report.
• The Washington Post said: “Simulitis is not COVID-19, and these simulations vastly oversimplify the complexity of real life. Yet just as simulitis spread through the networks of bouncing balls on your screen, COVID-19 is spreading through our human networks — through our countries, our towns, our workplaces, our families. And, like a ball bouncing across the screen, a single person’s behavior can cause ripple effects that touch faraway people.”

Read: Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve” (The Washington Post)