Bill McKeon

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I remember at that time hosting them and saying, we need to come together on the knowledge of this virus.

At the time, it was only one.

And how are we going to handle it?

We have to come together on supply chain.

We've got to pull our data together to establish a mechanism in which we could collect and standardize the data and do it on a day by day basis.

And this was key to us because if you remember in the reports for many months after this,

was that the United States was not prepared for this at all.

And they weren't prepared from a testing standpoint.

Vaccines were far off into the future.

Supply chain was non-existent.

So now everyone was on their own to try to negotiate.

I know this now because these meetings went seven days a week with the CEOs, 7 a.m., seven days a week.

And then it actually led to even a secondary meeting of all the top leadership from the city of Houston and the county and TMC at eight o'clock.

So we did this every day, seven days a week.

And the data was collected in real time.

And unlike other data sources around states trying to roll up state data, they weren't realizing the effect of this virus and the presence of it on a day by day basis.

They were looking at it sometimes four to six weeks

behind on the data, which really made it impossible to make daily decisions on it.

So we became the true north relative to data and understanding it.