Former FDA Scott Gottlieb head urges CDC to change indoor mask guidance

The CDC should amend its guidance to recommend lifting mask guidance in areas experiencing low rates of the virus, the FDA’s former head said Sunday.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who ran the federal Food and Drug Administration from 2017 to 2019, said the CDC is trying to maintain a “national standard” with its recommendations for masks indoors in public settings.

“There’s still parts of the country that have a lot of overcrowded infection,” he noted.

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