Old Buffalo said:
Agreed. "Informed policy decisions"
Which is exactly the opposite of what's been done to date.
We had plenty of data regarding risk levels for certain groups of people at the beginning from the time this got to the USA. We made no policy decisions at that time with those risk levels in mind and put millions on unemployment.
I hope we've learned our lesson and actually use whatever we data have today to truly make wise decisions based on what the data is showing, but honestly, I'm not entirely confident in the leaders' decision making at this point.
It does seem like private hospitals have done an awesome job of making use of the time that was provided to them to get prepared. They answered the call. I'm hoping private long term care facilities have done the same.