{"id":124360,"date":"2021-06-27T22:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T05:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/gottlieb-says-parts-of-u-s-could-see-very-dense-outbreaks-as-delta-variant-spreads"},"modified":"2021-06-27T22:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T05:22:17","slug":"gottlieb-says-parts-of-u-s-could-see-very-dense-outbreaks-as-delta-variant-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/gottlieb-says-parts-of-u-s-could-see-very-dense-outbreaks-as-delta-variant-spreads","title":{"rendered":"Gottlieb says parts of U.S. could see \u201cvery dense outbreaks\u201d as Delta variant spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gottlieb-says-parts-of-u-s-could-see-very-dense-outbreaks-as-delta-variant-spreads2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington \u2014 As the U.S. continues to navigate its way through the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said areas of the country could experience \u201cvery dense outbreaks\u201d with the concerning Delta variant continuing to circulate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be hyper-regionalized, where there are certain pockets of the country [where] we can have very dense outbreaks,\u201d Gottlieb said Sunday on CBS News\u2019 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/face-the-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Face the Nation<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The most vulnerable areas continue to be those with low vaccination rates and low rates of immunity from prior infections. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#vaccinations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>, many southern states have vaccination rates that lag behind the national average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington \u2014 As the U.S. continues to navigate its way through the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said areas of the country could experience \u201cvery dense outbreaks\u201d with the concerning Delta variant continuing to circulate. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be hyper-regionalized, where there are certain pockets of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}