Opinion: COVID-19 cases aren’t giving us a good picture of who’s contagious - Gainesville Times

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Opinion: COVID-19 cases aren’t giving us a good picture of who’s contagious

LPN Amanda McDaniel, of Northeast Georgia Physicians Group Urgent Care Gainesville, prepares to use a COVID-19 test Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, at Cherokee Bluff High School for any voluntary, asymptomatic student and school employee. - photo by Scott Rogers

08282020 HALLCOTESTING 1.jpg — LPN Amanda McDaniel, of Northeast Georgia Physicians Group Urgent Care Gainesville, prepares to use a COVID-19 test Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, at Cherokee Bluff High School for any voluntary, asymptomatic student and school employee. - photo by Scott Rogers

Have you wondered, with COVID-19 cases skyrocketing, why deaths and hospitalizations are going down? And why so many cases asymptomatic?