January 17th, Scott Gottlieb, the former director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, said in an interview with the U.S. media that he expected the mutant novel coronavirus reported in the United Kingdom at the end of last year to become the main virus spread in the United States within five weeks.
Scott Gottlieb said that the number of cases infected with mutant coronavirus in the United States currently accounts for about 0.5% of the number of infections in the United States nationwide, but this number may double every week.
Previously, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pointed out in a report that the mutant novel coronavirus reported in the United Kingdom at the end of last year may become the main virus spreading in the United States in March this year.
But according to Gottlieb’s latest prediction, it will take only five weeks for this mutant virus to become the main virus spreading in the United States.
Scott Gottlieb, former director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration: At present, the number of mutant COVID-19 cases accounts for about 0.5% of the total number of cases in the country, and hot spots in Southern California and Florida may be close to 1%, but the data will double every week, so the mutation will take about five weeks.
The virus may become the main virus spreading in the United States.
