{"id":1202301,"date":"2022-01-09T16:05:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T21:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1202301"},"modified":"2022-01-09T16:05:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T21:05:32","slug":"gottlieb-on-omicron-epidemic-curves-to-begin-going-down-in-certain-east-coast-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gottlieb-on-omicron-epidemic-curves-to-begin-going-down-in-certain-east-coast-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Gottlieb On Omicron: \u2018Epidemic Curves\u2019 To Begin Going Down In Certain East Coast States"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fgottlieb-on-omicron-epidemic-curves-to-begin-going-down-in-certain-east-coast-states%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=1202301&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--><p>On Sunday, former FDA Commissioner and current Pfizer board member Dr. Scott Gottlieb appeared on CBS\u2019 \u201cFace The Nation\u201d with host Margaret Brennan to discuss the latest developments pertaining to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>During the segment, Brennan asked Gottlieb if he stands by his prediction that Omicron will begin to burn out in some major metropolitan areas by February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou said we\u2019ll be past the Omicron wave by February. Do you stand by that trajectory?\u201d Brennan asked.<\/p>\n<p>Gottlieb replied by noting that despite predictions that Delta would have been the final \u201cmajor wave of infection,\u201d Omicron arrived and surprised many.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if you look what\u2019s happening across the East Coast right now in New York City, Washington, D.C., Maryland, probably Florida as well have already peaked, maybe Delaware and Rhode Island,\u201d Gottlieb stated. \u201cYou\u2019re going to start to see that in the statistics this week. You\u2019re going to start to see those curves, those epidemic curves bend down. You are already seeing that in New York City and Washington, D.C.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, however, saying that the Midwest is looking at rising cases, \u201cwhere they aren\u2019t in the thick of their Omicron wave yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the good side, hospitalizations are down relative to cases, but cases are up substantially, so it\u2019s pressing hospitals,\u201d Gottlieb added, later noting that the \u201clength of stay is down substantially \u2026 from four days to 1.6 days in the survey by Kaiser,\u201d which is \u201callowing hospitals to turn over beds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the \u201csheer velocity of the spread right now and the number of hospitalizations is pressing them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<p><em>BRENNAN: You said we\u2019ll be past the Omicron wave by February. Do you stand by that trajectory? And do we get to breathe a sigh of relief at that point?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>GOTTLIEB: Hopefully, we do. I mean, many people, including myself, have predicted that Delta would be the last major wave of infection. Then Omicron and came along, which was \u2014 represented sort of divergent evolution, I think surprised us that the virus was able to mutate so heavily and evade the immunity that we have acquired.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But if you look what\u2019s happening across the East Coast right now in New York City, Washington, D.C., Maryland, probably Florida as well have already peaked, maybe Delaware and Rhode Island. You\u2019re going to start to see that in the statistics this week. You\u2019re going to start to see those curves, those epidemic curves bend down.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You are already seeing that in New York City and Washington, D.C. The risk right now is to the Midwest, where you have rising infection, where they aren\u2019t in the thick of their Omicron wave yet. And you have states that had high hospitalization rates going into this. They had a lot of Delta infection. They had been coming out of their Delta wave, so their hospital census was already high.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And now they\u2019re seeing Omicron infections pick up. On the good side, hospitalizations are down relative to cases, but cases are up substantially, so it\u2019s pressing hospitals. Many of the hospitals on the East Coast are going to reach or surpass their previous hospitalization totals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>New York City is probably the city that\u2019s best equipped to handle it. They\u2019re about at 55% of the hospitalizations that they saw during that devastating first wave. But in other states, they\u2019re more pressed. They\u2019re close to 100% of the hospitalizations they saw in previous waves.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Finally, on the good side, length of stay is down substantially, so length of stay has gone from four days to 1.6 days in the survey by Kaiser, for example. So that\u2019s allowing hospitals to turn over beds. But the sheer velocity of the spread right now and the number of hospitalizations is pressing them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, former FDA Commissioner and current Pfizer board member Dr. Scott Gottlieb appeared on CBS\u2019 \u201cFace The Nation\u201d with host Margaret Brennan to discuss the latest developments pertaining to COVID-19. 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