（仮）パンデミックに関する英語表現集

頭打ちになる、横ばいになる、停滞期に入る

plateau
動詞

The weeks of locking down the country, center of the world’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak, may be starting to pay off, as officials announced this week that the numbers of new infections had plateaued.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/world/europe/it...


Jenny Harries, the deputy chief medical officer speaking alongside Williamson at the press conference, said this could be in part due to lower reporting rates over the weekend. Asked to predict whether the UK might have passed the peak of the crisis, she declined to “jump to all sorts of positive conclusions”, but said the data connected to hospital admissions looked as if it was “starting to plateau”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/19/pm-w...

名詞の、高原・台地 : plateau からの転用で、（数量の増減（主として増加）が）高原状態になる、という意味で動詞で用いられる。