{"id":492795,"date":"2021-05-10T14:50:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T18:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=492795"},"modified":"2021-05-10T14:50:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T18:50:54","slug":"former-fda-head-mask-mandates-should-end-in-wholesale-fashion-officials-need-to-rollback-restrictions-to-keep-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-fda-head-mask-mandates-should-end-in-wholesale-fashion-officials-need-to-rollback-restrictions-to-keep-integrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Former FDA Head: Mask Mandates Should End In \u2018Wholesale Fashion,\u2019 Officials Need To Rollback Restrictions To Keep \u2018Integrity\u2019"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fformer-fda-head-mask-mandates-should-end-in-wholesale-fashion-officials-need-to-rollback-restrictions-to-keep-integrity%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=492795&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Scott-Gottlieb-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the Food &#038; Drug Administration (FDA), said Sunday on \u201cFace the Nation\u201d that COVID-19-related restrictions, including mask mandates, should be lifted in \u201cwholesale fashion\u201d as the risk of the virus plummets. Gottlieb also argued that public health officials need to keep their \u201cintegrity\u201d and foster trust with the American people by ordering the shedding of restrictions as conditions better. Newsbusters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/nicholas-fondacaro\/2021\/05\/09\/former-fda-boss-tells-cbs-its-time-end-mask-mandates\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"14\">\n<p><em>Noting that \u201cCOVID won\u2019t disappear\u201d and \u201cwe\u2019re going to have to learn to live with it,\u201d Gottlieb pointed out the fact that \u201cthe risk is substantially reduced as a result of vaccination, as a result of immunity that people have required there prior infection.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And from there, he announced: \u201cI think we\u2019re at a point in time where we can start lifting these ordinances in a wholesale fashion. And people have to take precautions based on their individual risk.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve always said from a public health standpoint that we would set as a metric maybe when we get down to 10 people per 100,000 people on a daily basis,\u201d Gottlieb continued. \u201cWell, half the country is there right now.\u00a0If you want to be more conservative and say 5 cases per 100,000 people, well, this week \u2013 by this week probably a quarter of states will be there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re at the point where we can start lifting these ordinances and allowing people to resume normal activities,\u201d the former FDA commissioner asserted. \u201cCertainly, outdoors we shouldn\u2019t be putting limits on gatherings anymore. We should be encouraging people to go outside. And in the states where prevalence is low, vaccination rates are high and we have good testing in place so we\u2019re identifying infections, I think we can start lifting these restrictions indoors as well on a broad basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gottlieb, a Pfizer board member, then discussed the effectiveness of the Trump-harnessed COVID-19 vaccines. \u201cIf\u00a0you\u2019ve been vaccinated with the mRNA vaccines or the J&#038;J vaccine, your risk is very low from having a bad COVID outcome and your risk of getting an asymptomatic infection that you could spread to others is also substantially reduced,\u201d he said. \u201cThe data now does support that. So, we could start drawing some firm conclusions and basing our public health advice on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe risk is substantially reduced from vaccination,\u201d Gottlieb added. \u201cAnd I think you can sort of conclude that probably your risk from COVID if you\u2019re fully vaccinated, is comparable, maybe even less than your risk from flu if you\u2019re fully vaccinated in older individuals. So, you know, you can start resuming normal activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As noted by Newsbusters, Gottlieb noted that \u201call health officials needed to start pushing for the lifting of mask mandates as a way to \u2018maintain our integrity and our ability to reimplement these things when we have to.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe public has to trust that public health officials are going to lift these restrictions as quickly as they put them in place as the conditions improve,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s probably partly what\u2019s holding back the economy right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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