{"id":1062732,"date":"2021-11-28T18:44:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T23:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1062732"},"modified":"2021-11-28T18:45:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T23:45:05","slug":"fmr-fda-commissioner-gottlieb-addresses-omicron-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fmr-fda-commissioner-gottlieb-addresses-omicron-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Fmr. FDA Commissioner Gottlieb addresses Omicron variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffmr-fda-commissioner-gottlieb-addresses-omicron-variant%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1062732&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2595277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2595277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 OCTOBER 25: Dr. Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), testifies during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing concerning federal efforts to combat the opioid crisis, October 25, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 3:09 PM PT \u2013 Sunday, November 28, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Health experts have warned against jumping to conclusions amid the media frenzy over the Omicron variant. South African Doctor Angelique Coetzee said all Omicron patients so far have shown mild symptoms and none of which required hospitalization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s extremely mild for us. It\u2019s mild cases. We haven\u2019t admitted anyone,\u201d said Dr. Coetzee. \u201cI spoke with other colleagues of mine, the same picture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Coetzee stressed most of the new cases are mild in both vaccinated and unvaccinated patients, adding the disease is easily being treated at this point. Additionally, President Trump\u2019s former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb discussed how vaccines and boosters should work against the variant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s almost definitely here already, just looking at the number of cases coming off planes this weekend. It\u2019s almost a certainty that there have been cases that have gotten into the United States,\u201d said Gottlieb.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview on Sunday, he discussed how vaccine makers are confident fully vaccinated individuals, who have also received a booster, would be protected against the Omicron variant. Gottlieb, who is also a Pfizer board member, added there\u2019s no evidence of the new variant making individuals more sick than previous strains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs this more virulent? So, to your question, is this making people more ill? There\u2019s no indication that it is,\u201d said Gottlieb. \u201cAnd in fact, there\u2019s some anecdotal information off of physicians in South Africa that this could be causing mild illness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although, Chief Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci said otherwise. Fauci said the Omicron variant is something to be concerned about due to the multiple mutations that could potentially evade immunity from past infections or vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>However, Gottlieb predicted a different outcome based on studies testing the blood of vaccinated people against the Omicron variant set to come out next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, I would expect that those studies are going to show that the neutralization against this virus declined substantially,\u201d said Gottlieb.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Joe Biden said on Friday he would not be implementing anymore vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/texas-husband-charged-in-murder-of-his-wife\/\">Texas Husband Charged In Murder Of His Wife<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 OCTOBER 25: Dr. Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), testifies during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing concerning federal efforts to combat &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}