We’re coming up on two years’ worth of pandemic at this point, and Americans are over it. This has been one of the strangest events in modern history, truly, and we’re still in the thick of it in some parts of the nation and the world.
But now, one prominent doctor is suggesting that the the pandemic is over, and it’s thanks to a surprising new drug.
Appearing on CNBC’s Squawk Box Friday, former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said that Pfizer’s experimental antiviral pill — which was found, in trials, to cut the risks of hospitalization or death from Covid by 90 percent — will have a dramatic impact.
“I think the bottom line is the end of the end of the pandemic‚ as least as it relates to the United States, is in sight right now — given that we have the tools to combat this disease,” Gottlieb said.
And then…
“I think that this therapeutic and the other innovations that we’ve seen coming to market really mark the end of the pandemic in the United States,” Gottlieb said. “And we need to think how we put that victory sign on the side of the White House, and we declare victory over this pandemic, at least here in the United States.”
I think I can speak for a vast number of Americans in saying that it’s about time.
