The Washington Post's "simple simulations" showing how to slow coronavirus is its most popular story ever
Infographics that reporter Harry Stevens created to explain how coronavirus spreads have become the most-viewed story ever published on The Washington Post.
Stevens created the infographics for The Washington Post to demonstrate the impact that different conditions, known as network effects, can have on the spread of an imaginary virus in a fake town of 200 residents.
The spread is explored under a free-for-all, in which residents don't change behaviour, quarantine and self-isolation to show that the latter is the most successful way to contain the fictional disease called "simulitis".
"Even though they're very simple simulations, they help people understand how network effects work," Stevens told Dezeen. "When you see it on a computer screen, it suddenly becomes very clear, even though the simulations are so simple." The free-for-all shows how an infected resident causes the entire population to quickly become sick. This then reduces as residents become immune
The Washington Post published the article Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially and how to "flatten the curve"Â on 14 March and made it available to read free of charge. It is now the newspaper's most-read online story.
Stevens believes the story was so popular because it helps people realise that their actions can have a positive impact amid the coronavirus crisis and makes them feel less powerless.
"One of the things that my friends who have read it have to...
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