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In the United States, Rt is currently hovering at around one — any higher and the outbreak should grow, any lower and it should shrink. According to Kilpatrick and Gardner’s calculations5, boosters should therefore help to move case numbers downwards, thus buttressing against any upward pressure from Omicron.
“It’s not going to stop a raging epidemic,” Kilpatrick says. “But it definitely can take an epidemic that's growing at a very uncomfortable rate for lots of people, and make that into either a shrinking epidemic or a much, much less bad one.”
Source: Nature
Does "take" here mean "challenge" (or simply "endure")? I've checked it out in my dictionary and the 48 definitions there to me don't exactly fit in.
“It’s not going to stop a raging epidemic,” Kilpatrick says. “But it definitely can take an epidemic that's growing at a very uncomfortable rate for lots of people, and make that into either a shrinking epidemic or a much, much less bad one.”
Source: Nature
Does "take" here mean "challenge" (or simply "endure")? I've checked it out in my dictionary and the 48 definitions there to me don't exactly fit in.