Waiting to decide isn't necessarily the same as deciding nothing. For instance, now we know that COVID causes substantial blod clotting issues and that these ar

Waiting to decide isn't necessarily the same as deciding nothing. For instance, now we know that COVID causes substantial blod clotting issues and that these are possibly the cause of fatality rather than SARS. This is super useful to know when deciding to treat you; I'm no doctor (that kind anyway) and this seems obvious. So the later any specific case happens, the better the likely outcome. Multiply that by the number of cases, and it absolutely starts to make a lot of sense to wait to decide until you know more. Certainly the number of patients who come down with it in the Fall will have a lower fatality rate than the very first patients who got it, barring mutation that makes it more lethal for some other reason. Gathering information takes time so delaying until that information exists isn't the same as winging it.