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.
Which sentence from the article BEST supports this idea?
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The huge music festival Coachella has been postponed, along with a long list of concerts and music
tours, the video game industry's largest trade show and all Broadway shows through April 12.
As you've probably heard too many times by now, every year the flu sickens millions -nearly 50 million
this year and kills tens of thousands, perhaps as many as 52,000 this season alone.
Meanwhile, as Aaron Carroll the guy who usually doesn't worry-pointed out in The New York Times
March 12, the U. S. has only about 2.8 hospital beds per 1,000 people less than the 3.2 in Italy and
4.3 in China.
The idea has caught on so well among armchair epidemiologists that the #flatteningthecurve and
#Flatten TheCurve hashtags have trended several times on Twitter in recent days.