Science matters. The remarkable response to Covid has reminded us | Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz

While there have been setbacks, in Australia at least it would be hard to find many people distrusting of scientists

Being an epidemiologist in 2020 has been a very odd experience. This time last year, when I told people my job title, more than half the time I'd be met with a blank look and then the tentative question: Is that ... like a skin doctor?"

Explaining that it was more like a spreadsheet doctor rarely went down that well.