I stand with Tony Fauci (and Dr. Ashish Jha):
Also see Katelyn Jetelina’s excellent Your Local Epidemiologist blog post on the same topic; an excerpt:
“Public health leaders stepped up during a time of great uncertainty using systems too old to succeed while losing, at its peak, 3,500 people a day. They had to make incredibly difficult decisions, often with incomplete information, many of which were valid decisions based on the data at the time. Yes, they made mistakes, but their service was heroic and patriotic, too. We can live with these two truths.”