Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former director of the Food and Drug Administration and current board member at Pfizer, said that declining COVID-19 cases should signal to policymakers that it is time to lift more pandemic-related restrictions.
"I think certainly on the east coast where you see cases declining dramatically we need to be willing to lean in and do that very soon I think as conditions improve we have to be willing to relax some of these measures with the same speed that we put them in place," he told "The Squawk Box" in a Monday interview when asked about whether mask mandates should be dropped.
The former FDA commissioner also cited the Connecticut government's recent decision to rescind vaccine mandates for state workers as a policy that other policymakers should adopt in the near future as COVID-19 cases decline nationwide.
The call for COVID-19 restrictions to be dropped comes as the overall infection rate in the United States has sharply declined in recent days.
Outside the United States, more and more European countries have moved to rescind certain COVID-19-related rules, including vaccine passports and mask mandates.
World Health Organization's director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned that more COVID-19 variants may emerge and alleged that it's dangerous to assume Omicron is the last one or that "We are in the endgame."
"On the contrary, globally, the conditions are ideal for more variants to emerge." He didn't provide evidence or data to back up his claim.
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