{"id":985007,"date":"2021-11-08T13:14:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T18:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=985007"},"modified":"2021-11-08T13:14:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T18:14:49","slug":"fmr-fda-commissioner-gottlieb-says-international-travel-will-not-increase-covid-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fmr-fda-commissioner-gottlieb-says-international-travel-will-not-increase-covid-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Fmr. FDA Commissioner Gottlieb says international travel will not increase COVID cases"},"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\">24<\/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-says-international-travel-will-not-increase-covid-cases%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=985007&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_2574010\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2574010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 APRIL 05: FDA Commissioner-designate Scott Gottlieb testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on April 5, 2017 at on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Zach Gibson\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 9:32 AM PT \u2013 Monday, November 8, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said he believes the U.S. is close to seeing the pandemic phase of COVID-19 come to an end as the U.S. reopens its borders. As the U.S. has begins lifting border restrictions for fully vaccinated international travelers, Gottlieb predicts it will not contribute to more coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think the travel coming in from outside the U.S. feed additional infections, or a lot of additional infections. It\u2019s really going to change the equation. A lot of people coming into the U.S., first of all they have to show that they\u2019ve been vaccinated. A lot of them will make sure they aren\u2019t carrying the infection with them, they\u2019re not going to want to get caught in a foreign country,\u201d said Gottlieb.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent interview, Gottlieb said he doesn\u2019t think the new policy starting on Monday will result in an increase in cases and predicted the Delta virus will play its way out through the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you\u2019ve seen nationally is a stall in the decline of cases. That\u2019s not because we\u2019re seeing a pick up of cases necessarily across the country. What\u2019s happening is the Delta infection is moving from less populated areas, where it had engulfed those areas with infection, to more populated areas,\u201d Gottlieb claimed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Will a rise in travel feed into the Delta wave?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think the travel coming from outside the US will feed a lot of additional infections,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottGottliebMD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ScottGottliebMD<\/a> tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/margbrennan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@margbrennan<\/a>, adding those entering the US will be &#8220;cautious&#8221; about doing so. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CmvSaWxxBW\">pic.twitter.com\/CmvSaWxxBW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaceTheNation\/status\/1457381913086287875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Airline companies braced for a surge in passengers on Monday as the U.S. opened its borders to Canada and Mexico. Additionally, with travelers patiently waiting to see their separated loved ones, Delta Airlines has seen a 450 percent increase in international bookings in just six weeks since the reverse order was first announced. The move adds new regulations for travelers arriving by air, land and ferry, with officials saying it\u2019s going to be a bit sloppy at first.<\/p>\n<p>Circling back to the virus, however, Gottlieb said the U.S. is close to the end of the pandemic phase of COVID-19. He asserted the last spike in cases was caused by the Delta variant and believes COVID-19 in the U.S. would soon shift from a pandemic to an endemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019re close to the end of this, this Delta wave was the last major wave of infection,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve always said that two events that would demarcate the end of this pandemic was being able to vaccinate our children, we\u2019re now able to do that down to age five and also having a widely available orally accessible drug which could treat coronavirus at home and prevent people from being hospitalized and dying, we now have both.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Pfizer said their experimental COVID-19 pill was 89 percent effective in reducing hospitalization and death rates in high-risk adults. Meanwhile, Gottlieb said developing remedies such as the COVID-19 pill and vaccine for children would aide in lowering case counts nationwide.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/with-infrastructure-passed-democrats-set-sights-on-spending\/\">With Infrastructure Passed, Democrats Set Sights On Spending<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 APRIL 05: FDA Commissioner-designate Scott Gottlieb testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on April 5, 2017 at on Capitol Hill in Washington, &#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-985007","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\/985007","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=985007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985007\/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=985007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}