To tackle that confusion, he teamed up with designer Esther Kim to adapt a helpful graph that illustrates what’s at stake. The curve with the tall peak demonstrates a scenario where lots of ...

The first version of the now-ubiquitous “flatten the curve” chart appeared in a 2007 report ... the viewer with excessive information. It’s simple. “That’s what makes it so powerful ...

The overall goal, then, is to “flatten the curve” – to slow it down through preventive measures so that we can eventually halt the spread entirely. The chart which originated with ...

This so-called exponential curve has experts worried ... And, like a ball bouncing across the screen, a single person’s behavior can cause ripple effects that touch faraway people.