Shuttering Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table isn’t helpful. Independent advice is key to the continuing pandemic response
Depending on who you believe, the independent panel – which consists of a group of scientific experts who have been offering advice on how to navigate the pandemic – will: A) be dissolved on Sept. 6, or b) given a permanent home within Public Health Ontario.
The undermining of scientific independence via the enfeebling of the science table will not be good for the public’s health – and at a crucial time, when a seventh wave of unknown ferocity is poised to hit the province in the fall.The advisory table was created in July, 2020, when Ontario was just starting to catch its breath after the first wave of the novel coronavirus.
The Science Advisory Table, a loose collection of a few dozen volunteers , gave itself a mandate that emphasized independent thinking and transparency: It vowed to identify and study any scientific question that its members felt would help Ontario fight COVID-19, to pursue those investigations wherever they led, and to communicate openly and publicly about the results of these investigations.
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