（仮）パンデミックに関する英語表現集

（増加、上昇の）カーブを抑える
※実際には「増加・上昇のピークを抑えて傾きを下方へと導く」というような文脈で用いられている。

bend the curve
フレーズ（動詞＋目的語）

“These are not the double-digit increases we were seeing in hospitalization rates or ICU rates that we saw even a week or so ago. That’s not to suggest by any stretch of the imagination that we’ll continue to see these declines. It’s only to reinforce the importance of maintaining physical distancing and continuing our stay-at-home policy that has helped bend the curve in the state of California,” explained Newsom. “But that curve continues to rise, just not at the slope that originally was projected without the kind of interventions, these non-pharmaceutical interventions like physical distancing have provided for us.”
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/04/07/coron...
※加州知事Gavin Newsomの会見を引用した記事。


※COVID-19関連のツイートでの初期の使用例。このツイートの見出しでは 'bend the curve' が引用符で囲まれている。


"Let's bend the curve, not the rules." This was the key message from today's COVIDBC update with Dr. Bonnie Henry, Provincial Health Officer and Adrian Dix, Minister of Health.
※カナダのブリティッシュ・コロンビア州での会見から、Dr. Bonnie Henryの発言としてtwitterでは広く引用され初めている。



Transparency and quick action helped Seoul, and South Korea, bend the curve, says mayor Park Won-soon.
※twitterの見出し。


Park Won-soon, Mayor of Seoul, has said that transparency and speed have been two key factors that helped the city, and South Korea, “bend the curve” against coronavirus infections through pre-emptive countermeasures.
https://cities-today.com/how-seoul-contained-covid...

本来は「それまでの推移から見て、その後に予想される上昇、増加のカーブよりも下方へと曲げる」ということを表すべき表現。
※関連表現
ピークを下げる: flatten the curve　https://english-vocab-covid-19.memo.wiki/d/%a5%d4%...