Covid-19: public health expertise is being sidelined

Scally and colleagues’ editorial is a clear, concise analysis and call to action.1 As a former director of public health, retired since 2012, I recognise the decimation of the public health system that the authors describe. In recent months I have looked on with mounting horror as the realisation grew that many of the structures and mechanisms that worked so well during the swine flu pandemic are just not there. While “public …