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NewsColony Flattening the curve won’t lead to coronavirus turning point, study finds © AP China’s containment efforts were effective but came at too high an economic cost, a study has found. Photo: AP Attempts by authorities around the world to “flatten the curve” could be the worst way to fight the pandemic coronavirus, according to new projections by an international team of researchers. The approach, which has been adopted by many countries in the hope that warmer weather and a future vaccine will help rein in the virus, could destroy economies while having little effect on cutting infections, the researchers led by Peking University Professor Liu Yu said. “The turning point will never come, the peak value of case numbers will remain the same as if there are no such measures,” the team, which included scientists from Harvard University in the United States, said in a non-peer-reviewed paper released on preprint platform arXiv.org last week. “We strongly suggest they reconsid...