We’re told that social distancing is working because we’re flattening the curve. How do we know those two things are related?

Published: April 28, 2020, 1:02 p.m.

Jimmy Barrett and Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter on the morning of 04/28/2020, including: We’re told that social distancing is working because we’re flattening the curve. How do we know those two things are related? This summer the coronavirus may claim another victim: the Republican and Democratic national conventions, at least in their present form. In a series of breathtaking multibillion-dollar bets by vaccine makers, possible candidates to fight the new coronavirus are being prepared for production across the globe, before it’s even known whether any of them will work.