Overreacting to Winnie the Flu

For John, BLUF:  Somewhere Doctor Fauci said that if it feels like you are overreacting, you are probably where you need to be.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Seattle’s Army-built field hospital is coming down without treating a single patient

From The Anchorage Daily News, by Reporter Joseph O'Sullivan (of The Seattle Times), 9 April 2020.

Here is the lede plus one:

Even as some questions remain about the extent of the outbreak in Washington state, Gov. Jay Inslee Wednesday announced he would return to the federal government the field hospital recently assembled in Seattle’s CenturyLink Field Event Center to help the health care system cope with the new coronavirus.

With the USNS Comfort still stationed in New York, and the USNS Mercy in Los Angeles, Inslee's decision could mark the first return of hospital beds to the federal government during the pandemic from anywhere in the nation.

The media meme was that the President wasn't reacting quickly enough, not doing enough.  And now it looks like the President overreacted.  Not only do we have this news flash.  Midweek Politico reported, the military hospital at the Javits Center and USNS Comfort, with a combined capacity of 2,500 beds, has 66 patients at the Javits Center and 44 patients aboard Comfort.

I don't actually think the President overreacted.  He did what made sense at the time, informed by the concerns of the various State Governors.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff