"To minimize the impact of the coming pandemic, we need to slow its spread and thereby keep our healthcare systems from being overwhelmed. Through aggressive measures we can flatten out the epidemic curve, keeping the number of people simultaneously infected at a low enough level to be manageable." - Carl Bergstorm, Professor of Biology, University of Washington

“If you look at the curves of outbreaks, they go big peaks, and then come down. What we need to do is flatten that down.” - Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases