Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
bending the curve
French translation:
Inverser la courbe
English term
bending the curve
Bending the Pandemic Curve: Improving Decision-Making With Clinical Research (LWW Journals)
“If a Wuhan-like outbreak were to take place in a U.S. city, even with strong social distancing and contact tracing protocols as strict as the Wuhan lockdown, hospitalization and ICU needs from COVID-19 patients alone may exceed current capacity,” they wrote. “We don’t want to go that route,” Rivers told STAT. “So it’s the top priority right now that we bend the curve.” (STAT)
As I told Dan, the problem is that if 2-3% of the infected individuals need ICU care but no health system on earth is designed to deal with that kind of demand. Hence, if you want the same fatality rate as Taiwan or Germany, it’s all about preventing your ICUs from being swamped. That’s all about bending the curve. (Regenexx)
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Proposed translations
Inverser la courbe
Pour inverser la courbe du chômage, des mesures d'urgences ont été prises par le gouvernement fédéral. (My own sentence)
disagree |
Marcombes (X)
: incurver la courbe
18 hrs
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Merci
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agree |
Lionel-N
: Je dirais "inverser la tendance", mais le concept est correct. Incurver une courbe est "comique"
1 day 19 hrs
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Merci
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agree |
Bertrand Leduc
3 days 15 hrs
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Merci
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agree |
Maïté Mendiondo-George
13 days
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Discussion
-aplatir la courbe (donner à la courbe une autre forme, plus plate: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1664036/aplatir-courbe-...
et
-renverser la tendance parce qu'alors on serait sur le versant descendant de la courbe....