Which selection from the section "Slowing The Spread" BEST explains what epidemiologists

mean by "flattening the curve"?

All these decisions by public officials and

businesses are aimed at one goal: slowing

down the spread of the virus to avoid

overburdening a health care system that

doesn't have the infrastructure to handle a

sudden surge of tens of thousands of cases

at once

Epidemiologists study diseases and how they

spread. They can somewhat predict how

many cases of a disease are going to occur

based on how the disease is behaving.

The only reason total U. S. cases aren't

already skyrocketing is that coronavirus

testing has been such a mess that too few

people just 77 by the Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (CDC) in the whole

week of March 8 - are being tested. You