Medicine & management: Curing our country

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“Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous health misfortune, or to take arms against a sea of economic troubles and by continuing to lockdown, end them.”

You can’t manage what you can’t measure. But what happens when there is a move to manage what should be measured, resulting in confusion that will inevitably affect far-reaching economic decisions? Take the DOH COVID Situationers, which seem to be at odds with what we see happening at work (The Medical City) and in our neighbourhood (Quezon City).

At the end of February, 2021, active cases were below 30K. But now the incidence of COVID at our subdivision is twice what it was last year. By April …

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