Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on Sunday warned that some states in the South could soon experience exponential growth of
Coronavirus infections. As things stand, he said, states like
Florida and
Texas are reporting ample hospital capacity, but as previously shown by
New York, that can change quickly, and health care systems could soon be overwhelmed. "Everything looks okay until suddenly it doesn't," he said.
Dr. Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said the rise in cases has led him to believe the
United States won't face waves of COVID-19, like many public health experts initially thought. Instead, he views the pandemic as a "forest fire" that won't slow down in the summer after all. "Wherever there's wood to burn, this fire's gonna burn," he said.