{"id":1662,"date":"2021-08-10T15:58:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T15:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2021-08-10T15:58:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T15:58:59","slug":"ex-fda-head-warns-northern-us-may-see-covid-spike-as-schools-reopen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1662","title":{"rendered":"Ex-FDA head warns northern US may see COVID spike as schools reopen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authors: <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/author\/jackie-salo\/\">Jackie Salo<\/a> August 9, 2021\u00a0|\u00a02:52pm\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/08\/09\/ex-fda-head-warns-against-school-reopenings-and-covid-19\/#\">Updated<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb warned that Northern US states could see COVID-19 cases rise as students return to the classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">Gottlieb said the states may not have outbreaks that rival Southern hotspots such as Florida, but they are still vulnerable to climbing case numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">\u201cI think the Northern states are more impervious to the kind of spread we saw in the South, but they\u2019re not completely impervious,\u201d Gottlieb&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/transcript-dr-scott-gottlieb-face-the-nation-08-08-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said on CBS\u2019 \u201cFace the Nation\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">\u201cThey have higher vaccination rates, there\u2019s been more prior infection. But there\u2019s still people who are vulnerable in those states.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">Gottlieb said the return to school may drive case numbers up everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">For More Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/08\/09\/ex-fda-head-warns-against-school-reopenings-and-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/08\/09\/ex-fda-head-warns-against-school-reopenings-and-covid-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: Jackie Salo August 9, 2021\u00a0|\u00a02:52pm\u00a0|\u00a0Updated Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb warned that Northern US states could see COVID-19 cases rise as students return to the classroom. Gottlieb said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[375,517],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-of-the-day","category-school-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}