«I think the risk is really to the fall that this could spike a new epidemic heading into the fall,» the former FDA commissioner said.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said Sunday that a strain known as the is likely to become the dominant source of new infections in the U.S. and could lead to new outbreaks in the fall, with unvaccinated Americans being most at risk. «Right now, in the United States, it’s about 10% of infections. It’s doubling every two weeks,» Gottlieb said on «Face the Nation.» «That doesn’t mean that we’re going to see a sharp uptick in infections, but it does mean that this is going to take over. And I think the risk is really to the fall that this could spike a new epidemic heading into the fall.
