Gottlieb: The US Could See More Than 1,000 Daily COVID-19 Deaths for a ‘Sustained Period’
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration, is warning Americans COVID-19 could regularly take over 1,000 lives for the foreseeable future. “We’re probably going to see significant spread…
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration, is warning Americans COVID-19 could regularly take over 1,000 lives for the foreseeable future.
“We’re probably going to see significant spread across the entire United States in a confluent epidemic, now we’re much better prepared to deal with, so I don’t think that we’re going to see the excess death that we saw with the first wave of this pandemic when it struck New York,” Gottlieb told CNBC on Tuesday.
He added, “But the sheer fact that we’re going to be infecting so many people right now is probably going to mean that the death tolls get well above 1,000 for a sustained period of time and so it’s a very grim couple of months that we face.”
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During his appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday, Gottlieb weighed in on President Donald Trump’s claim the nation is “rounding the corner” on the COVID-19 pandemic, as IJR previously reported.
“Things are getting worse around the country. I think Thanksgiving is really going to be an inflection point. I think December is probably going to be our toughest month,” Gottlieb said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, predicted a similar outcome, as IJR previously reported.