Analysis: It’s time to talk about flattening the curve again
The recent emergence of the quick-spreading omicron variant combined with some initial reports suggesting that it may be less dangerous than the original variant — reports that— have reintroduced the idea that containment measures be loosened to allow it to spread.
Vaccines were, in a way, the inheritor of the sentiment behind “flatten the curve.” The idea there was that people could take steps that would help the community broadly . Vaccines do something similar, allowing potentially low-risk people to get a shot to reduce the likelihood that they’ll get infected and spread it to others. But with the intense focus on vaccines that has followed the deep politicization of the pandemic, that argument has often been explicitly rejected.
that those who aren’t vaccinated and Republicans see vaccination more as a personal choice than a social responsibility.The arrival of omicron as winter nears has led to a surge in new cases around the globe and in the United States, including in better-vaccinated states. Even if the rate of hospitalization is significantly lower than previous variants , a small percentage of a big number can be a big number.
So maybe it’s time to revive “flatten the curve.” Maybe emphasizing that the rampant spread of the virus means a strain on hospitals — and, crucially,— will serve as an incentive for people to take steps such as masking that would prevent their mild infection from spreading to other people. We were wrong about Purell. But we were right that flooding hospitals with preventable illness was not helpful.
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