'The entire Pacific Rim has less than 1,000 infections a day. Having a raging epidemic is not inevitable,' former FDA chief Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb expressed disappointment with the state of the U.S. coronavirus epidemic. "The entire Pacific Rim has less than 1,000 infections a day. Having a raging epidemic is not inevitable," the former FDA chief told CNBC.
Gottlieb doesn't believe China is lying about their much fewer case counts. "The entire Pacific Rim isn't in on the conspiracy." Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration listens during a House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., March 8, 2018.Dr. Scott Gottlieb on Monday lamented the persistent spread of the coronavirus in the U.S., suggesting the nation's response pales in comparison to other places around the world. "The entire Pacific Rim has less than 1,000 infections a day. Having a raging epidemic is not inevitable," Gottlieb said onreferring to countries such as China, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea and Australia. "People want to say China is lying about the two dozen cases that they're reporting a day, which I don't believe they are [lying]. Certainly, the entire Pacific Rim isn't in on the conspiracy. It isn't inevitable that we have a raging epidemic," added the former Food and Drug Administration commissioner under President
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