Our generation of public health doctors has seen SARS, pandemic H1N1, a drug poisoning epidemic and now #COVID19. Post-SARS commissions called for public-health independence. I wrote about that 4 years ago this week.

Yet today, politicians give advice on #hydroxychloroquine. https://twitter.com/picardonhealth/status/721032280836321280

And they influence PPE and transmission prevention recommendations, respond to questions about epidemiology and weigh in on which industries can continue congregating employees.

Whoever leads the post-COVID commissions will be able cut and paste a lot from the post-SARS ones.