Minerva-funded researcher, Neil D. Shortland and Laurence Alison recent article discusses why good pandemic management requires goal-directed least-worst decision-making. As scientists who study decision-making early on, they realized that what the COVID-19 pandemic required was rapid "least-worst" goal-directed decision-making. Least-worst decisions involve outcomes in which every course of action has negative consequences, and the decision-maker needs to differentiate which of the many courses of action offers the “best (or least-worst) solution.”
Link: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/conflict/202101/the-pandemic-textbook-must-include-decision-making