"I think the tables have turned"

The former head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Scott Gottlieb, was asked during an appearance on CBS’ “Face The Nation” if he believes the country will need to lockdown again.

“Through this whole pandemic, we’ve been about maybe three, four weeks behind Europe, so we’ve used Europe as a barometer of what’s going to happen in the United States,” Gottlieb said. “I think the tables have turned, and I think we’re ahead of Europe because we’re vaccinating so much more aggressively. Eastern Europe looks very bad right now. Italy looks bad.”

He continued, “But I think the U.S. is in a much different situation, through a combination of the fact that we have a lot of prior infection — so there’s immunity in the population from prior infection — and we’ve now vaccinated 25% of adults.”