{"id":125505,"date":"2021-07-25T20:24:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T03:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/gottlieb-says-u-s-likely-much-further-in-this-epidemic-than-were-picking-up"},"modified":"2021-07-25T20:24:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T03:24:18","slug":"gottlieb-says-u-s-likely-much-further-in-this-epidemic-than-were-picking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/gottlieb-says-u-s-likely-much-further-in-this-epidemic-than-were-picking-up","title":{"rendered":"Gottlieb says U.S. likely \u201cmuch further in this epidemic than we\u2019re picking up\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gottlieb-says-u-s-likely-much-further-in-this-epidemic-than-were-picking-up2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I believe since the weird localization of the virus in Japan that this sorta self evolving virus needs to have a counter like a self evolving vaccine but at the very least new variants can be made super fast with new technology in vaccine making.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>Washington \u2014 <\/em>Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, said Sunday he thinks the U.S. is further into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\">COVID-19 epidemic<\/a> driven by the Delta variant than Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) models are picking up. He said that could mean \u201chopefully we\u2019re going to turn a corner\u201d in the next two to three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not doing a lot of testing. More of the testing that we are doing is antigen tests that are being done at home and not getting reported,\u201d Gottlieb said. \u201cSo, I think we\u2019re much further into this epidemic than we\u2019re picking up and hopefully further through this epidemic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe since the weird localization of the virus in Japan that this sorta self evolving virus needs to have a counter like a self evolving vaccine but at the very least new variants can be made super fast with new technology in vaccine making. Washington \u2014 Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former Food and Drug Administration [\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-125505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125505","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=125505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}