Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) communication Scott Gottlieb warned Sunday that he opposed comparing the new coronavirus to the flu, responding to comments made through the White House suggesting that Jared Kushner, Jared Corey Kushner, Abraham’s Agreements: A New Hope for Peace in the Middle East Trump’s situations welcome Israel , United Arab Emirates and Bahrain for a historic PLUS signing previously made on the day.
Margaret Brennan of CBS noted that in the previous segment, Kushner had said she felt comfortable sending her children back to school, arguing that they were “six times more likely” to die of flu than viruses.
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“Well, I don’t know where the six times come from. I think we should be careful when making comparisons with the flu. This infection is not as rare in young people as flu every year. About 330,000 infections were diagnosed,” Gottlieb said. ” If you think we diagnose 1 in 5 to 10 infections in young people, there may be about 3 million young people who have become inflamed with it. “
Gottlieb admitted that coronavirus did appear to be “as widespread” in young people as influenza; however, he added that in addition to the approximately 90 child deaths due to the virus, there were indications that it could cause postviral inflammatory syndromes in young people. in some cases.
“There are many things we don’t perceive about COVID in children. I think we want to be careful when making comparisons to the flu and the death and disease we see in the flu compared to COVID,” Gottlieb said.
The former FDA commissioner also stated that while he expected an increase and decrease in deaths at this stage, “there has been a persistent point of infection, hospitalization and death over the next two weeks. “
“We’ve had over a thousand deaths a day for at least two weeks, more than 50,000 infections a day on average,” he said. “We reached 55,000 on the last day. Hospitalizations declined slightly, but did not begin to decline very quickly.
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