Gottlieb pushes back Trump ‘turning the corner’ comments on virus: ‘Things are getting worse’

Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb pushes back President TrumpDonald John Trump Poll: Trump leads Biden by 7 points in Iowa campaign Biden cancels event in Texas after pro-Trump cars surrounded his Obama bus shooting three points as he campaigned for Biden went viral MOREThe repeated comments from the United States that the United States is “turning the corner” on the coronavirus.

Gottlieb told CBS’s “Face The Nation” on Sunday that “things are getting worse.”

“Things are getting worse across the country,” he said. “I think Thanksgiving is really going to be an inflection point. I think December will probably be our hardest month.

Gottlieb said the states “are seeing an acceleration in the spread” and that the United States is “at the start of what looks like exponential growth in many states” including those in the Midwest, the Great Lakes region. , Texas, Illinois, Florida and Wisconsin.

“These are very disturbing trends,” he said. “There are currently about 23 states accelerating the spread.”

The former FDA official said 15 states have a positive 10% rate of positivity and that all states are experiencing “an expanding epidemic right now.”

#Pandemic Analysis: @ScottGottliebMD tell @margbrennan this #Thanksgiving will be an inflection point and December will be the most difficult month for # COVID-19[FEMININE .

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– Faites face à la nation (@FaceTheNation) 1 novembre 2020

Le New York Times a documenté un niveau record pour les nouveaux cas américains confirmés en une seule journée vendredi, à près de 100000.

Le journal classe 41 États et territoires comme des endroits où les nouveaux cas sont «plus élevés» et «restent élevés». Huit États et territoires ont été considérés comme des endroits où les nouveaux cas sont «moins nombreux mais en augmentation». Près de 30 États et territoires connaissent un nombre croissant de morts.

Dans l’ensemble, les États-Unis se classent comme le pays avec le plus de cas et de décès, avec plus de 9,1 millions de cas et 230732 décès, selon les données de Université Johns Hopkins.