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Commentary: Richard Robb | Arizona Republic
On managing COVID-19, Gov. Doug Ducey continues to get the balance between open and shut generally right.
The action he took last week was actually quite modest. He merely lifted the capacity restrictions on the limited categories of businesses for which they had been imposed, such as restaurants and gyms.
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His critics were, as usual, furious. But they are materially mispresenting his position and the status of COVID-19 community risk in the state.
A useful place to begin this discussion is to roll the clock back to last Nov. 27. On that date, a group of academics at the University of Arizona sent a hair-onfire memo to the Arizona Department of Health Services.
According to their computer model, the then building second wave of infections would overwhelm hospital capacity in the state by the end of December.
