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Opinion: These COVID metrics make no sense

Medical workers tested people for the COVID-19 virus Friday, May 15, 2020, in the parking lot of the Flor de Jalisco supermarket. State leaders spent time at the site in Gainesville’s largely Latino business district on Atlanta Highway as they sought to learn more about the area’s unique issues with and reaction to COVID-19. - photo by Scott Rogers

05162020 TESTING 6.jpg — Medical workers tested people for the COVID-19 virus Friday, May 15, 2020, in the parking lot of the Flor de Jalisco supermarket. State leaders spent time at the site in Gainesville’s largely Latino business district on Atlanta Highway as they sought to learn more about the area’s unique issues with and reaction to COVID-19. - photo by Scott Rogers

Why the sudden rise in virus cases? New metrics being introduced are comparing apples and oranges such that comparing to older definitions is irrelevant. Why is it we can always count on the government to make the situation so complex few understand it?