The Breeze headline on April 30, 2020 read: “Putnam COVID-19 Cases Jump 37.5%.” The heading, while 100% accurate, may have caused some to believe that the virus was more prevalent than it really was. Putnam’s actual case number increased from 16 to 22 during the last week of April 2020.

On Tuesday, April 27, 2021, the latest 7-day new case number was 94, — 15.7 times greater than the last week of April 2020. The…