Scott Gottlieb, the former FDA commissioner who has regularly appeared on CBS ‘ Face the nation During the coronavirus pandemic, alarms sounded again on Sunday about the spread of the virus.
Margaret Brennan He asked Gottlieb where the United States is headed at the moment and replied, “We are back where we were at the peak of the epidemic during the New York outbreak.” The difference now is that we really had a propagation epicenter when New York was going through difficulties, now we really have four main propagation epicenters: Los Angeles, cities in Texas, cities in Florida and Arizona. “
He said the fatality rate is going down, but that the death toll “will start to rise again as the number of hospitalizations starts to rise again,” even offering the grim assessment that “I wouldn’t be surprised in the next two weeks.” . see that the deaths exceed the thousand.
“That does not mean the case fatality rate, the actual death rate is not decreasing. But when you have more infections, even if the death rate is decreasing, you will have tragically more deaths. So if we cut the death rate in half, if we make this half less lethal than it was, but double the number of infections, we will get more deaths. And I think we are going to start seeing that, “he added.
Brennan asked Gottlieb about the president’s comments that 99 percent of coronavirus cases are “totally harmless,” something the current FDA chief did not directly answer when confronted in two interviews on Sunday. “When the president said about the increase in cases that 99 percent of which are totally harmless, are you confused?”
“I’m not really sure what he means,” said Gottlieb. “It could be referring to the number of people who are hospitalized based on the number of people who get infected, which is probably less than five percent when you count all the asymptomatic infection and infection in young people who might not be diagnosed.” . But certainly more than one percent of people get a serious illness from this. About 60 percent of infected people become symptomatic. Approximately 10 to 15 percent of them will develop some form of covid pneumonia, and somewhere around two to five percent could be hospitalized, depending on the age mix of the people who are becoming infected. “
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