I guess they do deserve some credit for prioritizing food service workers and such who are in high-contact situations, not just medical workers! In addition to

I guess they do deserve some credit for prioritizing food service workers and such who are in high-contact situations, not just medical workers! In addition to having a bug for residents without designated units (which again, how did they not test it on a sample set including residents?), it sounds like they maybe weighted age (or department?) too much compared to job description. It doesn't seem like an older physician that is working from home should be weighted higher than nearly anyone working every day in the hospital, regardless of age or if other people in their department working in the hospital got sick already. It seems like amount of contact with patients should have been weighted far higher than anything else (patients for elective procedures are required to get a virus test first, so amount of contact with untested patients like in ER, or covid+ patients like those who need to care for them, even higher). But I'm not a doctor or medical ethicist. If Stanford has a reason for not doing that, they can, well, explain it, if they want to look better. It makes me figure it was just not done very carefully. It seems to me that formula was just not very good. While it's technically an "algorithm", sure, I think most of us in the field would just call that a "formula" not an algorithm. I think they use the phrase "algorithm" precisely because to the layperson it seems more mysterious, more sophisticated, more complicated, harder to question, less obvious that was just something humans did, possibly not very carefully.