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Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb: ‘A Cloth Mask May Be 10 to 30% Protective’

Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb recommends that people who vote in person should have a high-quality mask, but he said Sunday that cloth masks only provide 10 to 30 percent protection from the coronavirus.

Gottlieb: COVID Seems to Trigger in Certain People Rarely Autoimmune Phenomena Where You Get Persistent Symptoms

Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb warned Sunday that doctors don’t know “the full impact” of COVID-19, because in rare cases, some people have persistent symptoms from the coronavirus.  

Gottlieb: FDA Won’t Be Easily Cowed into Emergency Vaccine Approval

Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday he doesn’t see a scenario where President Donald Trump could override the Food and Drug Administration to greenlight...

Gottlieb: Hospitalizations Coming Down But COVID-19 Cases Rising in Rural Midwest

COVID-19 cases may be falling in the Sun Belt, but they’re on the rise in the Midwest particularly in rural areas, which is a concern because they don’t have the same resources to deal with a pandemic,...

Gottlieb: I Reject Idea That FDA Would Slow Walk Anything Based on Political Consideration

Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on Sunday said he rejects the notion that the Food and Drug Administration is slow walking vaccines and therapeutics for COVID-19.

Former FDA Commissioner: COVID-19 Vaccines May Not Be Completely Protective

Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that coronavirus vaccines “may not be completely protective” and people who get vaccinated...

Former FDA Commissioner: Mitigation ‘Didn’t Work as Well as We Expected’

Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that while mitigation didn’t fail in dealing with the coronavirus, it didn’t work as well as expected.

FDA Commissioner: At-Home COVID-19 Test ‘Certainly Part’ of Effort to Increase Testing

FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn told “CBS This Morning” on Wednesday that the new at-home coronavirus test is part of the government’s efforts to increase testing beyond the current rate of 200,000...

FDA Commissioner: ‘Having Wildly Inaccurate Tests’ Worse Than Having No Test

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday having “wildly inaccurate” coronavirus tests is worse than having no testing at all.

Former FDA Commissioner: We Should Have Literature by the CDC to Delineate What Is Working

Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should provide literature to doctors on...

Sen. Cory Booker Will ‘Absolutely’ Work to Lift Ban on Gay Men Donating Blood

 The Food and Drug Administration requires gay men to wait one year after having sex to donate blood, but Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said he wants to change that.  

‘Defective’ Medical Device Provides New Amsterdam’s Latest Anti-Business Plot

Smug, unfeeling suits, unconcerned by harm their products have caused — that’s how New Amsterdam portrayed medical device manufacturers in its latest episode.  Construction worker Mr. Martinelli...