Former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb says the US could experience 300,000 coronavirus deaths by the end of 2020

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WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 06: FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb talks about vaping teens during a discussion on overcoming obstacles, at the Newsroom on March 6, 2019 in Washington, DC. Mark Wilson / Getty Images

• Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, predicted that the U.S. death toll from the American coronavirus could reach 300,000 by the end of 2020.
• In an interview with “Face the Nation” on CBS, Gottlieb said: “We will definitely be somewhere between 200,000 and 300,000. Whether we are closer to 200,000 or closer to 300,000 depends on what we do and how it evolves.”
• Gottlieb also predicts that the country may experience a third wave of the virus that will be more difficult to control.
• “The concern now is that this has become so pervasive throughout the country that it could start to infect more rural communities that to this day are largely untouched and probably a little more satisfied because they are untouched. , but are still very vulnerable because the infection has not been there, “he said.
• Gottlieb also said that children “are not immune to this virus.”
• “We have seen poor results. The CDC recently documented 570 cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children,” he said. “There are more cases that occur. We have seen children die. There are 86 children who have died from this and thousands who have been hospitalized. And so this is a risk to children.”
• According to data from John Hopkins University, the US has so far reported more than 162,000 deaths and more than 5 million cases of the coronavirus.
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