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scott gottlieb.> doctor: good morning. >> brennan: new cases have dropped below 50,000 for about the eighth day. that seems, according to johns hopkins, a positive development. but the c.d.c. director says it is really middle america that is getting stuck. where do you think we are. >> doctor: well, we're seeing some signs of good news here. we're seeing cases fall across the country, across the sunbelt, where the epidemic was. we're seeing deaths start to fall, and i think we'll see deaths fall below thousand aday. we're seei which is probably the most important indicator to watch. they fell before 40,000 for the first time in a very long time. this is driven by declines in the sunbelt, where the coronavirus was epidemic, the sort of second wave, if you will, of the epidemic. the first being located in the new york tri-state region. we're seeing more cases build in the midwest and the west. the concern is if there is sort of a third wave of the national epidemic, it could be more diffuse spread acro

scoo scott gottlieb in west port, connecticut.k. >> doctor: good morning. >> brennan: i want to start with where we stand right now, 1500 deaths on wednesday, that rate back to where we were in the spring. you heard jared kushner say basically not as the spring. what does it say where we are right now that we're at these levels and where are we headed? >> doctor: it has been fairly persistent. we thought we would see deaths peak and start to come down as the epidemics in the southern states started to decline. but there have been -- we've had over a thousand deaths a day for at least two weeks, over 50,000 infections a day on average. we hit 55,000 in the last day. hospitalizations have come down a little bit, but they haven't started to decline very rapidly. as the cases start to decline in the southern states, arizona, texas, florida, we're starting tosee in other parts oftrrniasti creasing. oahatitt is arizona. and we now have 14 states with positivity rates above 10%. mississippi at 21%. nevada, 17%. florida at 18%. there are

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commissioner scott gottlieb, who joins us from westport, connecticut.ood morning. >> good morning. >> john: i want to start with dr. anthony fauci said it is impossible to predirect where thpredict when f this virus will go. >> i think we're liking to see regional outbreaks -- like we've been seeing, we saw a very dense epidemic in the northeast. they got it under control with a very strict lockdowns. and they're starting to get it under control in the south states, with some actions they took, but more likely with the collective action of individuals, starting to withdraw from activity a little bit and wear masks more. i think we're likely to see this continue, where there will be these epidemics in different parts of the country, and cocompensatory action to get it under control. so as the sunbelt states are declining, we're seeing infection rates kick up in the midwest. right now the rate of infection across the country is one in 70 individuals are actively infected. there is a lot of infection across the entire united states. >> john: is what is hap

scott gottlieb on in a little bit.e can ask him more about this my guess is the russians have taken a candidate and fast forwarded it without doing a lot of those extensive studies that you're going to see on vaccine candidates here in the united states there are people here in the united states pushing for us to do the very same thing if you talk to some of the more cautious experts, some of the people who look at this, they say, no, we do this for a reason it would be disastrous if you approved a vaccine and it turned out it wasn't safe or didn't work very well, that people would lose faith in vaccination programs it's difficult enough to get people to accept vaccinations and do this. there are more people in the united states who are anti-vaxxers there's a real reason you go through these extensive steps. again, totally a guess but i don't know how they would have had time to do all the testing that we are making sure every one of the vaccination candidates in the united states have gone through. >> that's just a sa

former fda commissioner scott gottlieb says this virus could make a resurgence in the northeast the first epicenter of the pandemic. >> i think there's a lot of infection around the country, hard to keep the virus out even in the northeast, hard for that part of the country not to get receded and you're seeing rotate through different parts of the country. >> there's also a stark warning out today from the world health organization, the agency says that despite hopes for a vaccine there will not be a silver bullet to stop the coronavirus and that it will be a long road back to normal. it will also be a long road ahead for the millions of americans hurt by the economic damage from this crisis, the trump administration and congressional democratic leaders resume talks today on a new pandemic relief bill days after expanded unemployment benefits for millions of americans expired. we're also keeping an eye on tropical storm isaias which is forecast to make landfall in the carolinas tonight and move up the eastern seaboard over the next couple of the days. more on the storm and the relief bill

scott gottlieb on the boards of pfizer and alumina. this was encouraging news. i know you've been calling for these fast cheap antigen tests for a while. why can they only be use d in certain circumstances. >> they can be used more widely, they don't require a lot of sophisticated technology you can deploy them into a setting. you need a medical technician to deploy the test. but you can push it into a school and have a school nurse administer it, or have a nurse administer it in a workplace i think it's going to get more wide use it's not proved for routine screening of an asymptomatic population, i suspect it's going to be used that way right out of the gate the sensitivity will go down as a screening tool but given the high sensitivity of the test in asymptomatic population, you would expect it to be a good tool for those purposes especially given the price point and ease of use. you have to give abbott credit for manufacturing and coming to market with substantial manufacturing. i think the only question is, how much of the existing runs of this product have

commissioner scott gottlieb. plus, as the country says good-bye to john lewis, a renewed call to protect the right to vote. and our latest battleground tracker from two states that president trump won in 2016, where the covid crisis is impacting his election. it is all ahead on "face the nation." ♪ >> john: good morning, and welcome to "face the nation." margaret is off this week. six months into the pandemic, the coronavirus is only getting worse. in july alone, nearly two million cases were reported in the u.s., which is over a million more than the previous record set during the month of april. and as we head into august, deaths are increasing in 16 states. complicating the response is a tropical storm that is off the coast of florida this morning. our coverage begins with cbs news national correspondent mark strassman in atlanta. >> reporter: the virus and the storm sounds like cheap fiction, but georgia, the carolinas, and up to the virginia, arriving storm. isaias forced many florida testing sites to close.

scott gottlieb "squawk box" begins right now. >> good morning, everybody well come to "squawk box" hereuick with joe kernen and brian sullivan andrew is off today. welcome brian, good to see you >> good to see you as well >> in your honor, i wore a purple shirt today >> to make up with his brown tie from yesterday >> don't adjust your sets,

scott gottlieb the former commissioner of the fda fired back against that notion and said that there's no indication that the fda would speed up or slow anything down for political reasons, so you do have fda officials who are pushing back very fiercely against that type of characterization. >> all right, kristen stay with me. we have a doctor here who can explain to us about what was wrong with what dr. hahn said in the first place. explain to us what was wrong in how he characterized and described it. >> the challenge is, he overstated -- how many people would get better. relative versus absolute, means comparing apples to and apples to apples, to orange. if you have 100 people on convalescent plasma 35 would be saved. that's absolutely not the case. so the real challenge we have here is that emergency use authorization does not give you the same kind of clear data that a randomized controlled trial would do. that's the problem. it may help some people. we don't know how many people it would help and we don't know how quickly it would help them. >> on that point, i want to play for y

top doctors like anthony fauci and former fda commissioner scott gottlieb warn that's a terrible ideaan international researcher and american medical professionals point out this strategy didn't even work in sweden, the examples people are point to as a success story. more than 8,500 people died from coronavirus in sweden which has the about the same population as north carolina. not to mention stockholm officials say by may only about 7% of residents have been exposed to the virus. now, in the united states the cdc says nearly 7,000 people under the age of 50, or 28,000 people under the age of 65 have died from coronavirus. and the long-lasting impact of covid on the heart and other organs isn't known. this afternoon dr. atlas denied the report by "the washington post" to cnn saying he has never advocated for herd immunity. joining me to discuss this is dr. paul offit. thanks for coming on, doctor. is it even feasible for the united states to achieve herd immunity to fight coronavirus? >> no. for a few reasons. first of all, ever since the 1960s when they were first defined, we've ha

scott gottlieb talked to us about how to battle these campus outbreaks this morning here's what he said >> you want to have the economy functioning and able to go out to stores? maybe we should have universal masking. you want to return to a college campus this fall, maybe they'll have to give up large parties. if the universities want to, they can enforce that with the threat of expulsion. >> brian sullivan, are universities ever going to expel students for going to parties, and if not, are we ever going to stop the spread of covid >> i'm sure they will. i'm sure there will be cases to set kpamexamples what did they expect did they expect kids to come back and not be college students my son just left for college today. these kids are not worried about it right or wrong, they're not worried about it the fatality rate for people under the age of 24 is almost statistically zero there have been fatalities and it's too many. the kids are aware of the statistics the risk, kelly, if they go to college, they start to spread it, and then you send them home. now you're risking mom, dad, grandma,

commissioner scott gottlieb every sunday.ds returning to schools in the right settings. >> right it's how you do it. and that's the sort of hand holding some have called for from the national level is at least give us benchmarks. joe biden has called for that. give a positivity rate to decide whether to open or closed. those are the kind of things that the trump administration has called far too printive, that it is allergic to members of their party. i think it's interesting on health care, because during this entire campaign, we just ta e ll ofshe ttwee senator kamala harris, who changed her positions aew rmeestore and strengthen the affordable act. so in some ways, we're seeing a bit of a glossing over the differences on this key issue tonight because there is this effort to try to bring together the democratic party. also, on the issue of the economy, some glossing over of the differences between progressives and the centrist kind of democrat that joe biden is. but one point of agreement is that it's a huge issue and a gr

. >> so former fda commissioner scott gottlieb defended the agency against those accusations by the president. >> when it comes to regulatory decision making in that agency, it's a foundational truth that what guides that agency is science and deeply sees the sense of public health that guides that agency. i reject the idea that they would accelerate anything based on any kind of political consideration and any consideration other than what's best for the public health and a real sense of mission to patients. >> meanwhile, "the new york times" is reporting that trump aides met with congressional leaders last month and told them that the administration may approve a coronavirus vaccine before the november election. two people briefed on the discussion telling "the times" that those administration officials said a vaccine would probably get emergency approval before the end of phase iii clinical trials in the united states, perhaps as early as late september. a white house spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for the -- from "the times" for comment. >>> all right, so night one

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brian: president, today's "the washington post" written by four experts, one of which is scott gottlieb who i know you like. he says blood plasma might be the covid-19 treatment we need. if we can get people who have recovered from the virus get the plasma and get it widespread that might be the therapeutic. you are in the meetings with the leading doctors. do you believe this and if so, what are you doing to spread this plasma? i haven't heard much about this in months. >> yeah. it's a big thing. in fact, i had the meeting the other day at the red cross building. you probably saw that. it was a big meeting mostly on plasma. and it was also a meeting for people that have recovered. people that have recovered, if they would go to their blood bank, give the red cross or wherever they can find and give a donation, because i will tell you what, that would be a tremendous thing. scott is 100 percent right. it's a tremendous thing what we have done with the plasma. and it makes better, you know, it makes people better. it's fought them off once and it will fight them off again. but that's a n

scott gottlieb "squawk box" begins right now. >> good morning, everybody well come to "squawk box" here i'm becky quick with joe kernen and brian sullivan andrew is off today. welcome brian, good to see you >> good to see you as well >> in your honor, i wore a purple shirt today >> to make up with his brown tie from yesterday >> don't adjust your sets, folks. it is not 5:00 a.m you are seeing brian sullivan. that's what i did. is this jump forward, step back. there he is. their loss is our gain, having you here, sully. you are probably raring to go because you slept in, right? >> it was perfect. i slept in to 3:45 >> exactly i wore green for you today, becky. >> i wore purple for you today i just went in my closet and found the ugliest brown shirt i could find >> that's not green. that's purple. >> we are playing zac brown band we are playing for you get it >> this delay. if people only knew what we hear in our ears doing this trying to think. what are they saying chicken fry -- what is he saying >> who knows live at bonaroo highway 20 live. >> all zac brown >> i little bit of chicken f

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scott gottlieb, dr. fauci, all of them had said, doctor, that they needed to move past hydroxychloroquine. the medical community, as a whole, the scientific community as a whole said it's time to move past hydroxychloroquine. the president still is clinging to this for whatever reason. you now look and see he's ignoring their advice again on convalescent plasma. again, it may work. it may be a significant break through down the road but we don't have the studies yet. and i am worried that people seeing the president doing this with this sort of government by gesture in time for the rnc and what he said in the past about disinfectants, ha he said in the past about so many other things about this magically going away in april that when it's time to roll out a vaccine, americans are rightly going to be skeptical that they can't trust the president that it is safe for them, their children, and their parents. >> joe, good morning, good to see you. the biggest concern i had from the presser yesterday was fda c

scott gottlieb, the former commissioner of the fda. >> as the sunbelt states are declining we're seeingtion rates pick up. >> the cdc is sooith a projection that more than 18,000 coronavirus deaths will happen in the next three weeks. and dr. deborah birx of the white house coronavirus task force is warning the nation's outbreak is entering a new phase. >> what we're seeing today ais different from march and april. it's extraordinarily widespread. it's into the rural as equal urban areas, and to everybody who lives in a rural area, you are not immune or protected from this virus. >> but some americans appear unfazed by the virus. video from the weekend shows nearly 1,000 people at this boat party in east peoria, illinois. officials in nashville are now investigating this large house party where people were seen crowded together without masks. robert livingston in morristown, tennessee, wasn't big on wearing masks. then he contracted the virus. >> i was healthy, a 27-year-old, and it absolutely kicked my butt. >> stupid not to wear a mask. >> reporter: livingston developed pneumonia and

. >> reporter: former fda commissioner scott gottlieb told "face the nation" the next phase of the pandemicould be even harder to control. >> this has become so pervasive across the country that it could start to infect more rural communities that have largely been untouched to date. >> reporter: to the west now. near los angeles, a pastor held indoor services in defiance of state health rules and a court order. prompting a protest and a counterprotest. the video shows a woman who wanted the church closed apparently being pushed to the ground. and in utah, a community is mourning the loss of kelly rindlisbacher, a life-long educator. his son jerod told us the whole family caught the coronavirus after getting together in late june. >> it was a testament to just how contagious the virus can be, that we weren't with each other that long and all of us came down getting sick. >> reporter: but while the rest of the family got better, kelly got worse. he was hospitalized july 6th and spent the next five weeks on a ventilator. he died last friday at 61 years old. >> we were fortunate enough for the

scott gottlieb he sits on the boards of pfizer and ilumina. great to see you >> thank you for having me >> let's talk about this news. how long would this regulatory review generally take and what could that mean for when that particular vaccine could hit the market if approved >> well, i think when you look at the vaccines, the good news is in the news we had this week is the trials are enrolling pretty well. pfizer announced they enrolled 11,000 patients in the trial in the first three weeks. moderna enrolled 30,000 patients as t astro zenica has a trial under way in the united kingdom. they enrolled about 8,000 patients the trials are progressing well. if the vaccines are effective, you could get a readout as early as october that is a little less effective. the rule of thumb is if they're about 80% effective at reducing the severity of symptoms or preventing disease, you may get a result in october. if they're 50% effective, it mate take until november to readout from the trials. it's going to depend on how effective the vaccines are when

suggestive but it's hardly a breakthrough and it's >> reporter: now, scott gottliee >> reporter: now, scott gottlieb, th the former fda commissioner said he fundamentally rejects the fa commissioner, defended t idea that officials would impact agency, saying he rejects the idea that officials would the timing of a decision on impt the timing of a decision based on political pressure. this isn't the first time the fda has granted emergency use authorization during this s isn first time the fda has pandemic. grant you might remember remdesivir emergency us was given the same green light during the in may after trial data showed that antiviral drug helped shorten hospital recovery time remdesivir was also given that in may, after that showed it in some patients. >> all right. thank you. we're going to have more on the new treatment including an some. >> thank you we're goin exclusive look inside g to have experimental trials in the nextg hour. experimental >>> now to that scary situation. that's comin out west where record heat and t ur> now, to th lightning storms are hindering firefighters' efforts t

scott gottlieb about that. >>> fortnite maker epic games taking on apple and google over what it calls anti-competitive behavior giving users a discount and cutting out the e map services which cuts out the ability to take a 30% cut from sales. new users will not be able to download the game and existing users won't be able to download any updates. google followed the lead and removed the game from the app store and was also hit with a lawsuit. the feature was not reviewed they did it with the express intent of violating the guidelines epic says it is not looking for compensation but looking to get apple to change the par di that ad dropped within moments of news of that lawsuit. it was a month ago tim cook spent about six hours defending the app store and practices there. >> go ahead, joe >> no, no. i was going to do some social commentary you are probably going to do something relevant remember the simpsons in like 2004 president trump ran and won. they said 2020 was going to be 1984 lucky that didn't happen we are living in or wellian times. so many days i wake up and read something

scott gottlieb, cnbc contributor and on the board of pfizer labor day. forgot about that. a lot of people get together i'm trained. i got to tell you that things i used to do i feel people if they are closer than five feet it is very strange right now is that ever going to go away? >> i think it will look, i think we have to get through fall and winter. we'll see how it goes. a risk of an uptick of cases this is a 2020 event as we get to 2021, we'll have enough exposure. hopefully a vaccine at some point in early 2021 will get this behind us we'll see as some people maintain a level of vigilance with the spread through the fall and winter. >> i can think of two other areas and one is like a rapid saliva test. is this is like a flu-like thing. that would be able to nail it on the spot and hopefully get that person where they are not going to be contagious and the other thing. like a cocktail where if they zap it and didn't decrease 35% mortality but knocked it out that would be good too is there progress on both of those? >> i think we'll have both of those. even setting as

we also know that scott gottl b gottlieb, the former fda commissioner pushed back against that characterization that the agency would speed up or slow down of the approval of any of these drugs. he also made the point that he believes this approval of convalescent plasma will only ultimately yield incremental results. making the point essentially, that there still needs to be moring work into ifkthe effecti. >>> some ek experts say there isn't not enough data supporting its effectiveness. you're watching msnbc. save i. for small prices, you can build big dreams. spend less, get way more. shop everything home at wayfair today. >>> we're following the very late nest the coronavirus pandemic. here are the latest facts as we know them at this hour, researchers in hong kong report the first confirmed patient to be infected with the coronavirus for a second time. the patient is a 33-year-old man who first tested positive back in march and earlier this month, tested positive again after returning to hong kong from a trip abroad. the miami dolphins here in the united states announced 13,000 fans will b