Normalize the data (take into account different population sizes). Often, COVID-19 statistics are displayed state by state. Does this link say New York and California have a lot of COVID-19 deaths or just a lot of people? It turns out that as of 17 July 2020, New York has 167 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 people, and California has just 19.
What are the consequences of these statistical flaws? Because of the change in counting the number of cases, that number has greatly risen over the past month. It looks so different from the COVID-19 death trend that it is obviously flawed. From the point of view of the typical reporter, looking at cases makes better news, and it beats up on President Trump.
Now Florida mistakenly looks like a leper colony, so even though Florida has only one eighth as many deaths per 100,000 people as New York, New York governor Andrew Cuomo declared that people visiting Florida and returning to New York must quarantine themselves for 14 days. Cuomo, whose state is tied with New Jersey as the worst state in the union, as determined by counting deaths, is jealously blaming a better run state for supposedly being worse than New York. Cuomo should put his emotions aside and try to improve his job performance.
The data has been perverted beyond belief for political reasons. Eventually that needs to be called out for what it is, but apparently Trump does not feel that he has the time to fight that battle right now.