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Dr. Scott Gottlieb: Getting Covid Vaccine Doesn't Mean People Can Just Return to Pre-Pandemic Life
By Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC • Published 1 hour ago • Updated 16 mins ago
"It's not going to be like it was in 2017 and 2018, when we didn't worry at all about catching a respiratory pathogen," Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Wednesday.
"We're going to worry about it, even if we're vaccinated," he said.
The former FDA chief compared a post-coronavirus world to flying after Sept. 11, 2001.
Americans vaccinated against Covid-19 cannot simply return to their pre-pandemic ways of life, Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Wednesday.
"It's not going to be like it was in 2017 and 2018, when we didn't worry at all about catching a respiratory pathogen," the former Food and Drug Administration commissioner said on "Squawk Box." "We're going to worry about it, even if we're vaccinated."
However, he did say, "I think we'll worry much less than we're worrying right now, hopefully."...
...."I just think things are going to be different, just like they're different when you go through an airport now after 9/11," said Gottlieb, who serves on the board of Pfizer, which makes a Covid-19 vaccine. "I don't think masks are going to be mandatory next fall and winter if we can get the vaccination rate up and if these new variants go away or don't become prevalent. But I do think a lot of people will want to wear masks, and that's OK."
Gottlieb cited a couple reasons behind his beliefs, including reluctance by some people to be vaccinated against Covid-19, just like there's not universal vaccination against seasonal influenza. Additionally, he stressed that the vaccines protect people from developing symptomatic Covid-19, not necessarily from ever being infected by the coronavirus.
"It's going to take time to fully answer that question because we're going to be dependent on real-world evidence, but the conventional wisdom ... is that the vaccine is probably preventing some people getting infected and probably reducing likelihood of people who are infected [from transmitting] the virus," Gottlieb said. "What we don't know is the magnitude of that effect."
Gottlieb said he believes that "if we do things right" in the U.S., by the fall and winter Covid-19 will be less of a widespread problem than it is now. Instead, he said can be more like a "very bad season flu."
"We're still going to see people who get sick. There will still be people who die of Covid next winter, but it won't be epidemic," he said. "It will circulate. There will be outbreaks. People who are vaccinated will have substantially reduced risk of having a bad outcome." ...
Dr. Scott Gottlieb: Getting Covid Vaccine Doesn't Mean People Can Just Return to Pre-Pandemic Life
By Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC • Published 1 hour ago • Updated 16 mins ago
"It's not going to be like it was in 2017 and 2018, when we didn't worry at all about catching a respiratory pathogen," Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Wednesday.
"We're going to worry about it, even if we're vaccinated," he said.
The former FDA chief compared a post-coronavirus world to flying after Sept. 11, 2001.
Americans vaccinated against Covid-19 cannot simply return to their pre-pandemic ways of life, Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Wednesday.
"It's not going to be like it was in 2017 and 2018, when we didn't worry at all about catching a respiratory pathogen," the former Food and Drug Administration commissioner said on "Squawk Box." "We're going to worry about it, even if we're vaccinated."
However, he did say, "I think we'll worry much less than we're worrying right now, hopefully."...
...."I just think things are going to be different, just like they're different when you go through an airport now after 9/11," said Gottlieb, who serves on the board of Pfizer, which makes a Covid-19 vaccine. "I don't think masks are going to be mandatory next fall and winter if we can get the vaccination rate up and if these new variants go away or don't become prevalent. But I do think a lot of people will want to wear masks, and that's OK."
Gottlieb cited a couple reasons behind his beliefs, including reluctance by some people to be vaccinated against Covid-19, just like there's not universal vaccination against seasonal influenza. Additionally, he stressed that the vaccines protect people from developing symptomatic Covid-19, not necessarily from ever being infected by the coronavirus.
"It's going to take time to fully answer that question because we're going to be dependent on real-world evidence, but the conventional wisdom ... is that the vaccine is probably preventing some people getting infected and probably reducing likelihood of people who are infected [from transmitting] the virus," Gottlieb said. "What we don't know is the magnitude of that effect."
Gottlieb said he believes that "if we do things right" in the U.S., by the fall and winter Covid-19 will be less of a widespread problem than it is now. Instead, he said can be more like a "very bad season flu."
"We're still going to see people who get sick. There will still be people who die of Covid next winter, but it won't be epidemic," he said. "It will circulate. There will be outbreaks. People who are vaccinated will have substantially reduced risk of having a bad outcome." ...