The magnitude and importance of the decisions that have to be made in the Age of COVID-19 require a far more informed and significantly enhanced decision-making process.

The containment and treatment strategies implemented to address the threats to public health and safety by the COVID 19 pandemic have created economic, cultural and political challenges that will require leaders in both the public and private sectors to make major decisions affecting public health; the economy; household income; the communities in which we live; and how, where and when we work.

Under the circumstances, we must address the need  to make sure decision-makers have the accurate, complete, relevant, useable and publicly credible information they need to understand of challenges they face, the options available to address those challenges and actions required to implement the options  being considered.