Sentence examples for epidemic tips from inspiring English sources

And when an epidemic tips, it tips because something has happened, some change has occurred in one (or two or three) of those areas.

Taken together, this means that we do not need a major disaster like a terrorist attack or an emerging infectious disease epidemic to tip the strained balance between the supply and demand of critical care resources.

What Gladwell seems to ignore is that there are other factors that prepare an epidemic for its tipping point.

Britain faces a nationwide epidemic of fly-tipping and thousands of jobs will be lost because of a massive increase in charges to dump rubbish, waste companies warned last night as George Osborne was hit by a new tax row.

In other words, there is more than one way to tip an epidemic.

If we are interested in starting an epidemic - in reaching a Tipping Point - what are the most effective kinds of groups?

However, the epidemic had to reach the tipping point in the first place for that little cause to be so effective.

Russia's AIDS epidemic is at a dangerous tipping point after the number of people registered HIV-positive passed the 1 million mark, the country's top AIDS specialist said on Thursday, warning the rate of infection had reached record levels.

This ability to persuade strangers to accept a message is why salesmen are important in tipping epidemics.

If we accept his premise that social phenomena act as epidemics, then studying when the tipping point in the epidemic occurs seems to be the most illustrative way to understand the epidemic.

We trust mavens, and this is especially important because their assessments can often make or break the tipping of an epidemic.