The former chief of the Food and Drug Administration predicted Wednesday that the federal mask mandate on airplanes and other public transportation will be lifted next month if the US isn’t battling a COVID-10 surge fueled by the highly contagious Omicron subvariant BA.2.Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who ran the Food and Drug Administration from 2017 to 2019, said he expected President Biden’s mask mandate for federal public transportation to be lifted when it expires on April 18.“If we’re not in thick of another wave of BA.2 infection in the middle of April, I think they will go ahead and lift that,” Gottlieb told CNBC. “I think the uncertainty around that is we are starting to see infections start to creep up. If it kind of levels off in the next couple of weeks, which it may, I think the administration will go ahead and lift that.”
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