IATF should study the science and math of the pandemic

BEFORE the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) issues another policy pronouncement on the coronavirus pandemic such as, say, imposing restrictions on the country’s celebration of the Christmas and New Year holidays, we urge the task force — especially its Department of Health component — to prudently study and comprehend the science and the math of the pandemic.