Interview with Scott Gottlieb on COVID, the CDC, and More

November 26, 2021

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Scott Gottlieb, former CDC director, sat down for an interview with Stat News to discuss his new book, Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic. In the interview, reported by Adam Feuerstein, Damian Garde, and Meg Tirrell, Gottlieb talks about what went wrong with the USA’s response to the pandemic, issues within the CDC, and balancing his many professional and personal responsibilities.

Gottlieb says, “This pandemic showed how excessively vulnerable our society is because of systemic challenges that we face with getting adequate health care to communities in society that were made excessively vulnerable to Covid precisely because they lacked access to care. They face bias in how care was delivered. They worked in jobs where they didn’t have the social capital at work to demand conditions that would keep them safe.”

Read the entire interview here.

(Source: Stat News, September 24th, 2021)

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