"Now I know what going viral means"
- Drew Harris -
今年二月底,
Dr. Drew Harris,
美國 Thomas Jefferson 大學,
人口健康分析家,
正前往 Eugene, Oregon,
探望他在那裏的女兒。
飛機上,
他看到他的
"Google news feed" 裏,
有篇某經濟學家的文章,
講到如何減輕新冠疫情的危害。
文中貼上一張,
美國 CDC 公布的附圖,
正是 Dr Harris 在多年前,
正是 Dr Harris 在多年前,
給他的學生,
所作的 Influenza 防疫教育課程。
那時,
他強調兩條疫情流行曲線:
"One had a steep peak indicating a surge of virus outbreak in the near term;
the other had a flatter slope, indicating a more gradual rate of infection over a longer period of time."
"The gentler curve results in fewer people infected at this critical moment in time
— preventing a surge that would inundate the healthcare system and ultimately,
one hopes, resulting in fewer deaths."
這也是
Dr. Anthony Fauci,
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
一直強調的
"flattening that curve."
"flattening that curve."
當在 Portland 機場,
等待回 Philadelphia 航班的時候,
Dr. Drew Harris 得知
Oregon 州,
有了第一個新冠病毒病例。
他説,
我現在真正了解
我現在真正了解
"going viral" 的真意。
葉子 (Yeh Tze)
According to Urban Dictionary, something that “goes viral” is an image, video, or link that spreads rapidly through a population by being frequently shared with a number of individuals.
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