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Dr. Scott Gottlieb says U.S. delta-driven Covid spike could peak in 3 weeks, following U.K. pattern - CNBC
Jul 26, 2021 1 min, 3 secs
is turning the corner, it's a pretty good indication that maybe we're further into this than we think and maybe we're two or three weeks away from starting to see our own plateau here in the United States," said Gottlieb, who led the Food and Drug Administration commissioner from 2017 to 2019 in the Trump administration.

"A lot of the people who are becoming symptomatic are becoming more mildly symptomatic because they're younger people or they're people who have been vaccinated and just become asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic.

So those people aren't presenting for testing," added Gottlieb, who serves on the board of Covid vaccine maker Pfizer.

According to a CNBC analysis of Johns Hopkins University data, the weekly average of new daily Covid infections in the U.S.

As recently as July 5, the nation's seven-day average of new daily infections was just below 12,000.

"Our ascertainment— the percentage of people who are presenting for testing and actually getting recorded— is quite low right now, so this infectious wave must be far more pervasive than what we're detecting, which means we're further into it than what we believe," Gottlieb said.

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