'I wouldn't be surprised if on the whole we're infecting up to a million people a day right now,' ScottGottliebMD says. 'We're just picking up maybe a 10th of that or less than a 10th of that.'
The current seven-day average of new daily coronavirus cases in the U.S. is roughly 67,000, according to a CNBC analysis of Johns Hopkins University data. That's up 53% compared with a week ago, as the country grapples with a surge in new infections driven largely by delta, first discovered in India and now the dominant variant in the U.S.
"What it reflects is a reality where you have a highly transmissible variant that's widely spread across the U.S.
"Most of the spread and most of the people who are showing up in the hospital are younger people. If that's where the infection is occurring, then there must be a lot more infection underneath the small numerator that's showing up in the hospital," added Gottlieb, who led the FDA from 2017 to 2019 in the Trump administration.
The highest seven-day day average of new Covid cases recorded in the U.S. was roughly 251,000 on Jan. 8, according to CNBC's analysis. Case counts had dropped off dramatically in the spring as the country's vaccination campaign picked up speed.
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