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

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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

Letter to the editor

Published: Sep 4, 2020, 9:12 PM

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

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Opinion: America’s dangerous path and its echoes of Germany in the 1930s

Donald Trump celebrates his victory in the presidential election.

Donald Trump celebrates his victory in the presidential election.

Letter to the editor

Published: Apr 10, 2025, 8:30 PM

History has warned us what happens when a government scapegoats an entire group of people, strips them of their humanity, and justifies oppression through fear. We’ve seen this before, in 1930s Germany. And yet, here we are again, watching it unfold in America.

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