Dr. Scott Gottlieb: U.S. about ‘a week away from a rapid acceleration’ of coronavirus cases – CNBC

Dr. Scott Gottlieb is warning that the United States is about “a week away from seeing a rapid acceleration in cases of Covid-19 as the number of coronavirus infections and hospitalizations surge.
In an interview on CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith” on Monday evening, the former FDA chief in the Trump administration said the country no longer has any pandemic backstops.
The summer was a backstop, of sorts, to the spring surge, and we have no therapeutic backstop, Gottlieb said. The fall and…