scott gottleib of course, he's the former fda km commissioner dr. w businesses in particular are going to respond to this what do you think happens next >> well, look, first of all, i think cdc had to take this step. whether they took it now or a week from now, i think you're seeing the situation improve around the country many places around the country have fewer than five daze cases. half the state have less than 10 cases per 100,000 people per day. that's where the threshold is. there are states approaching 70% of their population vaccinated these are the thresholds that we would relax the provisions many states have relaxed the provisions cdc is conforming with the states and what people aspire to do states need to interpret the guidance and they'll implement new measures businesses need to interpret their state regulations and state mandates i suspect a lot of businesses and retail locations will keep their employees in masks for a period of time longer. i suspect some stores, some locations may require masks to enter. we're in a period where th

scott gottleib and texas governor greg abbott about america's reopening.. welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc i'm becky quick along with andrew ross sorkin and mike santoli. joe is off today watching the u.s. equity futures and on this last trading day before a long weekend you're going to see green arrows across the board. dow futures up by 166. they've been up by as much as 200 this morning s&p up by 15 nasdaq up by 57. andrew >> thank you, becks. we are just under 30 minutes away now from the latest read on inflation. we're going to be getting the fed's preferred gauge at 8:30 even time. ahead of that mike has been taking a look at treasuries and inflation link stock sectors mike >> they've kind of been in a holding pattern. uncommonly steady and kind of calm markets we have going into this number. take a look at the 10-year treasury yield what you see here is familiar on a lot of these charts. huge surge up into february, march area and then a little bit off the highs but really range bound and staying above this floor. you know, we have not really cr

scott gottleib, former fda commissioner, cnbc contributor he also serves on the boards of pfizer and n i thought, scott. as you predicted, i took someone yesterday to get the second shot and it was quiet there a month ago the lines were out the door we're getting close to where everybody that wants one has gotten one and that concerns me because there aren't enough people that have it yet. are we going to start seeing that we need to flip the switch and start inducing people and selling this i don't think the j&j pause helped very much >> look, i'm not concerned i think we're going to continue to chip away at this if you look at the goal that the administration set to try to get 70% of the adults vaccinated by july 4th, that's 175 million adults, right now 150 million are vaccinated they're anticipating getting 25 million vaccinated if you amortize that over 60 days it's about 400,000, 450,000 people vaccinated a day. i think that's probably right. demand will fall off not only because you're getting into softer demand. people who want the vaccine a little less. prevalence will climb.