Scott Gottlieb

"I think there's a lot of infection around the country."

"While we do need to lean forward and try to open our schools because it's important to children, we need to prevent outbreaks from happening in those schools."

Gottlieb also explained why it will likely take some time before the transmission rate slows down.

"I think the apex in the epidemic states right now, the center of the epidemic, which is California, Texas, Arizona, and Florida, could be two to three weeks away."

"Tragically, we're going to see deaths start to rise and that's why I said in two to three weeks until you see deaths get back above a thousand."

"So we're going to see deaths creep up and I wouldn't be surprised in the next two weeks to see deaths go over a thousand."

"We have some scientific basis to understand that these kinds of settings do create risk."

"A lot of things can go wrong. A lot of things can be delayed. It's very hard to get to the point where you're manufacturing at high, high quantities."

"When you look at the data nationally over the last two weeks you are seeing some flattening across the country."