Flattening the Curve

What interventions do

An interactive lesson with 7 steps, about 6 minutes: you predict, drag and solve, with instant feedback on every answer. It runs in your browser and needs JavaScript.

What you’ll learn

• Lowering transmission flattens and delays the peak, and reduces total infections.
• Basic SIR assumes uniform mixing and lasting immunity.
• More detailed models add structure, but the core ideas remain.

Steps

1. Lowering R
2. Under the line
3. Two towns, one infection
4. Hospital beds
5. Buying time
6. The slow way down
7. Limits of the model