'It'll be harder to hide': Ex-FDA chief warns mutant coronavirus strains 'may change everything'

'It'll be harder to hide': Ex-FDA chief warns mutant coronavirus strains 'may change everything'
Dr. Scott Gottlieb in May 2017, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Alex Henderson
January 18, 2021 | 04:31PM ETPush Notification

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, around 11.1 million people in the United States have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. But the rollout is much slower than had been promised. And former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, in a Twitter thread posted over the weekend, expresses concerns that "persistent high infection" will continue "through spring" unless "we vaccinate enough people."

Highly infectious new COVID-19 variants have emerged in the U.K., South Africa and elsewhere. And Dr. Gottlieb notes that COVID variants have been making their way to the U.S.:

The U.S., Gottlieb warns, needs to do everything it can to decrease the spread of COVID-19 while getting as many Americans as possible vaccinated:



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