Think of it this way, if you had a heavy crazy rain in Nairobi for 48hts, our drainage systems will get overwhelmed and he city would flood. But if the same amount of rain was spread over 2weeks, we would have a green clean dust-free city. https://twitter.com/YouthActKE/status/1245681421357850624

In the same way, our public health interventions aim to slow down the number of new infections, so that the number needing hospitalization or critical care is not massive at one go. That way, our healthcare system can manage it better to avoid what we are seeing elsewhere.

It may not necessarily reduce the overall total number of infections by much but it enables us to provide better medical care to those who need it, resulting in better outcomes and less mortalities.