Former FDA chief says US needs to keep coronavirus lockdowns in place for weeks
have put in place broad restrictions shuttering nonessential businesses and activities. Once community transmission is contained, officials should look to transitioning to more targeted measures, he said.
"You can slowly take your foot off the brake of population-based mitigation and press down on those case-based interventions, and hopefully we'll have more screening in place and that's going to help us do that," he said.New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that the number of cases in the state is doubling every three days. The virus has now infected more than 49,700 people in the U.S., according to Johns Hopkins University, and killed at least 600 people. Gottlieb cautioned against ending mitigation measures in place before the spread has peaked.
"It doesn't work so long as you have sustained community transmission," Gottlieb said. "We have to break the chain of transmission in areas where this virus is spreading rapidly." Disclosure: Scott Gottlieb is a CNBC contributor and is a member of the boards of Pfizer and biotech company Illumina.
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