Former FDA Chief Scott Gottlieb calls for 'massive surveillance system' to prevent future outbreaks

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Dr. Scott Gottlieb, member of the boards of Pfizer and biotech company Illumina and former FDA commissioner, joins "Squawk Box" to discuss the latest on fight coronavirus in the U.S. and around the world.

The coronavirus will continue to disrupt daily life in the fall unless there is an effective drug to treat it, former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Thursday.

“If we don’t have it, this virus is going to come back in the fall and it’s going to continue to shut down parts of our lives,” Gottlieb said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

“This is going to circulate in the background. The consumer is not going to bounce back. People are going to be afraid to go out and we’re going to continue to see people succumb to this virus,” he added.

Gottlieb said the sense of “urgency” being applied to the development of a COVID-19 vaccine needs to be applied to developing a therapeutic.

“We really need to figure that a vaccine might be two years away,” contended Gottlieb, a CNBC contributor who sits on the boards of Pfizer and biotech company Illumina.

A drug, by contrast, can be developed “in the near term,” Gottlieb said. But he said it will require global regulators to change their approach, much like they have done toward COVID-19 vaccine development.

He pointed to the National Institutes of Health’s work with biotech company Moderna. Together, NIH and Moderna have already begun phase one human trials of a vaccine in the Seattle area.

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We need surveillance on who is profitting from all this.

mingwong
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I would gladly die than give up my freedom and the freedom of my children and grandchildren.💪 who's with me!!!!. #livefreeordie

krisklev
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Nah, I'll keep my privacy and my rights. Pound sand with this fascist nonsense!

paulschofield
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Wow. We've willingly adopted China's government system.

cindydo
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Nah. We can't let the government do that! Remember 1984.

victorhugh
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FYI survelliance used in this context isn't defined as what most people define it as. He's talking about more widespread testing, isolating infected individuals, and quarantining close contacts of infected individuals.

jz
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Why does he start blinking when she mentions he's a businessman?

chimpspecialist
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What?

But USA accuse this is violation of human right and privacy..

Can't believe USA abandon yourself

raymond
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Thank you Dr. Gottlieb for your level headed and scientifically based messaging about the virus. I hope we can get our act together and implement your recommendations.

robertgiles
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Our pricacy & other liberties are being taken thru all this...

yeazon
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So for all of you not wanting "surveillance", which I'm sure is not watching you, but testing people and then following up on who they have been in contact with and testing those people, what is your suggestion? Just let everybody back out and wait for the hospitals to start filling up again?

edalvarez
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are you included in this surveillance and do you stand to profit off of it?

josephgamble
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Uhm, no. I'm fine with old school quarantine for a short term period, but we are not China.

Camelotsmoon
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Never thought I would live through this blatant, played out propaganda. Like a nightmare that you cant wake up from.

sheridancopley
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Doctor should have been watching world news... the facts were

HerrFrankenstein
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YOU WANT A WHAT?

OK, Big BRo, calm down.

The_General_Zubas
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would be a shame if he caught the rona...

nietcykablyat
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Of course there must be surveillance. Of course.

jacknaneek
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You don't need mass surveillance, you just need a President who would listen to his own agencies when they raise alarm bell for a potential pandemic.

techno
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Loss of human rights in exchange for a false sense of security.

Yea this is gonna turn out great 😅

ThatBaseballGuy