Answering Your Coronavirus Questions: Unemployment And Flattening The Curve

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Published April 9, 2020 at 8:50 PM EDT

Medical personnel display instructions to motorists for COVID-19 testing in south Los Angeles.

On this broadcast of The National Conversation, we'll answer your questions on the latest unemployment numbers, efforts to flatten the curve and the number of COVID-19 cases.

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