“I don’t think we have everything we need in place.” Dr. Scott Gottlieb says the U.S. has not yet put the necessary infrastructure in place to combat the coronavirus outbreak.
Covid-19 hospitalizations are on the rise in a number of states, Gottlieb told CNBC. Hospitalizations are a "lagging indicator" since it takes several weeks for someone to become sick enough to be admitted. But health officials say they are more telling than confirmed infections, which depend on the availability of testing. He said Tennessee, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ohio have all seen hospitalizations rise.
The government should be making efforts to test "medically and socially disadvantaged people" who are more likely to contract Covid-19 but still don't have access to testing, Gottlieb said. He added that state and local officials should be rolling out "very aggressive tracking and tracing" strategies.
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