U.S. field hospitals stand down, most without treating any Covid-19 patients
The article is presenting this as some sort of scandal, that we spent a lot of money to urgently build things that we didn't end up needing.  This way of thinking about things is why we are generally not well prepared for unlikely disasters: most work you put in will not be needed.<p>Instead we should see this as really positive: we were working to make sure that if stay-at-home (which has cost <i>far</i> more than $600M) didn't work we would have space to treat people, and then we kept the infections low enough that we didn't need to use it.