Everyone is starting to weary of social distancing, but it’s unlikely to end soon unless the U.S. can get an effective testing strategy in place. Without it, we’ll be right back where we were a month ago, according to U.S. scientists.

On Friday, Montanans were becoming hopeful that Gov. Steve Bullock’s shelter-in-place order was doing the trick to slow the spread of COVID-19. Four weeks after Montana had its first four positive cases, it was doing better than other states at keeping the numbers down, even though 365 people were known to have the disease and six had died.

By Laura Lundquist