The pandemic will slow down in the US soon – but not for a reason worth celebrating

• Former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb shared a new coronavirus update over the weekend, one that included his prediction of a slowdown in the spread of the virus soon.
• His prediction is due to the fact that the US has seen so many cases of the virus during the pandemic. The COVID-19 virus will thus soon start having a harder time finding new people to infect.
• However, it's not necessarily news worth celebrating, as Gottlieb points to the fact that more "death and disease" will accompany our move towards that slowdown.

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Former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb is predicting that the coronavirus pandemic will start slowing down soon in a pretty marked way, at least in the US, for a somewhat depressing reason.

It has to do with the fact that the US has been leading the world when it comes to the number of coronavirus cases here -- with the total closing in on 6.3 million as of Monday morning, per the latest data from Johns Hopkins University. With so many people having already been infected in the US, Gottlieb thinks we'll start to see a slowdown in the virus soon on account of the fact that it's simply running out of new, vulnerable people to infect. That's according to a coronavirus update he shared over the weekend during an interview on the CBS program Face the Nation.

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