Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb warned Sunday that mortality from coronavirus cases will increase in the near future.
Gottlieb noted that a better understanding of the coronavirus and a higher proportion of infections in younger people is currently causing fewer deaths, but said on CBS ‘”Face the Nation” that “the total number of deaths will start to increase again as the number of hospitalizations starts to increase again. “
“We are going to see the deaths get scared,” he added. “You are going to have more deaths, tragically.”
GRIM WARNING: “The total number of deaths will start to increase again,” @ScottGottliebMD tells @margbrennan as the # COVID19 epidemics worsen in places like Florida and Arizona, and more Americans are hospitalized pic.twitter.com/lAR6CDu2Zx
– Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) July 5, 2020
Asked by Margaret Brennan of CBS about President Trump
Donald John Trump protesters tear down the Christopher Columbus statue on Baltimore Independence Day star Bill Pullman, urging Americans to wear a “mask of freedom” on July 4.Claiming that the virus was “harmless” in 99 percent of cases, Gottlieb replied, “I’m not really sure what it means,” speculating that the President could be referring to the number of people hospitalized in relation to infected people, which was probably less than 5 percent when asymptomatic cases are taken into account.
“I’m not really sure what he meant,” @ScottGottliebMD says of @ realDonaldTrump’s claim that 99% of # Covid19’s cases are “harmless.”
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– Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) July 5, 2020
“But certainly more than 1 percent of people get a serious illness from this … about 60 percent of infected people become symptomatic, about 10 to 15 percent of them will develop some form of COVID pneumonia and somewhere around 2 to 5 percent of them are hospitalized, depending on the age mix of the people who are becoming infected, “he added.
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