The country is facing another cycle of the Covid-19 pandemic, and it may be the hardest yet, former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said. 'I think we're right now at the cusp of what's going to be exponential spread in parts of the country,' he said.
"I think we're right now at the cusp of what's going to be exponential spread in parts of the country," Gottlieb said on CNBC's"Squawk Box." "If we took aggressive steps right now, we could potentially forestall the worst of it, but we're not going to do that," because there's a lot of fatigue and"policy resistance to taking strong action," he said.
Utah hospitals might be days away from rationing health care, hospital group saysIn Utah, for example, hospitals could be days away from using a patient's age, health and other factors to decide who can stay in crowded intensive care units, and who can't."That potentially could be occurring all over the country as our hospitals become overwhelmed," Wen said.
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