The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy requested an expert advisory committee to consult on the pandemic. But the panel has had little chance to share its knowledge.
Just this week, aspilled into the public over scientific evidence involving the efficacy of treatments advocated by President Donald Trump. The dispute pitted Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, against Peter Navarro, the White House director of trade and manufacturing policy.
That the White House has not asked for guidance on the hydroxychloroquine dispute is baffling; that it has consulted the expert committee only eight times since it was established even more so.
The United States presently lacks a centralized agency or advisory body to help policymakers understand the wide range of epidemiological models produced by state agencies, universities, and consultants, domestically and overseas. That means that policy is being made at the federal level and across the states based on a variety of no doubt sophisticated but uncoordinated and often opaque models.
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