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    Reflection Paper On "Flatten The Curve... "

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    Covid-19 spreads rapidly through contact with infected individuals and respiratory droplets. It originated in bats and mutated before spreading to humans in China in late 2019. Studies show the virus can survive on surfaces for up to 3 days. Experts determined social distancing of 1 meter or more is needed to reduce transmission through droplets and slow the spread. Governments have implemented quarantines, lockdowns, and bans on large gatherings to encourage social distancing and flatten the curve of new infections. Modeling shows extensive distancing policies can significantly reduce cases and increase recoveries compared to less restrictive measures.

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    Covid-19 spreads rapidly through contact with infected individuals and respiratory droplets. It originated in bats and mutated before spreading to humans in China in late 2019. Studies show the virus can survive on surfaces for up to 3 days. Experts determined social distancing of 1 meter or more is needed to reduce transmission through droplets and slow the spread. Governments have implemented quarantines, lockdowns, and bans on large gatherings to encourage social distancing and flatten the curve of new infections. Modeling shows extensive distancing policies can significantly reduce cases and increase recoveries compared to less restrictive measures.

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    Covid-19 spreads rapidly through contact with infected individuals and respiratory droplets. It originated in bats and mutated before spreading to humans in China in late 2019. Studies show the virus can survive on surfaces for up to 3 days. Experts determined social distancing of 1 meter or more is needed to reduce transmission through droplets and slow the spread. Governments have implemented quarantines, lockdowns, and bans on large gatherings to encourage social distancing and flatten the curve of new infections. Modeling shows extensive distancing policies can significantly reduce cases and increase recoveries compared to less restrictive measures.

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    Reflection Paper On "Flatten The Curve... "

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    Covid-19 spreads rapidly through contact with infected individuals and respiratory droplets. It originated in bats and mutated before spreading to humans in China in late 2019. Studies show the virus can survive on surfaces for up to 3 days. Experts determined social distancing of 1 meter or more is needed to reduce transmission through droplets and slow the spread. Governments have implemented quarantines, lockdowns, and bans on large gatherings to encourage social distancing and flatten the curve of new infections. Modeling shows extensive distancing policies can significantly reduce cases and increase recoveries compared to less restrictive measures.

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    Covid 19 is a communicable disease, it spread very fast if you happen to have in contact
    with person who has this virus. It originated in China, as health experts says it came from bats
    and transmitted to some animals that caused mutations, and later on transmitted to humans. On
    its first recorded case, it was named NCOV or Novel Corona Virus but as the cases increase and
    spread not just in China but also around the world, it became a disease and named COVID-19 or
    Corona Virus Disease 19, 19 because it was first recorded in the later part of the year 2019. But
    how did it spread that quick? It is because the strain of this virus is different or mutated strain
    from other coronavirus that was recorded many years ago and at first, health experts does not
    have any idea on how to stop the spread of this new virus. But after a thorough research and
    studies, they came up to a conclusion that this virus is transmitted through droplets and other
    body fluids from people who have this virus lying inside them. According to the WHO, this can
    also be transmitted when a person accidentally hold a certain object that has a virus and touch his
    nose, mouth or eyes where it can be an entry point for the virus towards the person’s respiratory
    system.  Studies have shown that the COVID-19 virus can survive for up to 72 hours on plastic
    and stainless steel, less than 4 hours on copper and less than 24 hours on cardboard.

    With this information that health experts were able to recover and after thorough studies
    and research, they suggested and strongly appeal to people to maintain at least 1 meter distance
    from each other or most commonly know term during this pandemic “social distancing”, it is to
    avoid inhaling the droplets that are expelled by the person that has this virus. Social distancing is
    the most common intervention done by the experts during this pandemic. Putting communities
    on enhanced community quarantine and lockdowns. Governments also does not allow mass
    gatherings in order to maintain social or physical distancing to be able to flatten the curve since
    there is still no vaccine that is discovered by the experts. As shown in the Washington report, a
    free community will have its citizens get infected in a very short period of time, while an
    attempted quarantine will have an increase of its cases at the same time recoveries, but is
    outperform by moderated quarantine which will probably record lesser number of cases
    compared to an attempted quarantine, while the best is an extensive distancing or having the
    communities to be under lockdowns so that people will not have to go to work and go out from
    their houses, by this time they will record a lesser number of cases and a much higher recoveries
    since the movement from people will be very limited. But according to Drew Harris, the report is
    just a representation and not the actual reality, it is a representation of how social distancing
    affect the goal in flattening the curve of this pandemic but not the actual reality wherein, if it
    should be based on the current situation some “sick bouncing balls” should also disappear
    representing our brothers and sisters who lost their battle against this deadly virus.

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