> USD$660M seems like a reasonable price to pay, strictly as insurance, given the very real risk that hospitals would have been overfilled and covid-related mor

> USD$660M seems like a reasonable price to pay, strictly as insurance, given the very real risk that hospitals would have been overfilled and covid-related mortality would have spiked due to lack of care. I think this is under-appreciated. In contrast to the $0.6 billion spent on field hospitals, the US spent some $2000 billion on the CARES act to mitigate economic harms of the virus and response to it.