Why Virus Fight Shifts to Mitigation, Social Distance

The first phase in the fight against the coronavirus was containment — efforts to keep it from entering or spreading in a community. In many places around the globe, the task has shifted to mitigation — slowing the spread once the virus is established within a population. Mitigation means adjusting old-fashioned approaches like quarantines and turning to newer tools such as “social distancing.” The World Health Organization is calling for such “non-pharmaceutical methods” to be used at a scale