Scott Gottlieb left the Trump administration nearly a year ago - but from Twitter to TV, he's become the face of truth-telling about the coronavirus pandemic.
The 47-year-old former Food and Drug Administration commissioner is providing blunt reality checks on talk shows and in congressional chambers, where his warnings about undetected outbreaks and testing delays starkly contrast with current administration officials' assurances that the risk from the fast-spreading virus remains very low.
"And all I say is, 'Be calm.' We have the greatest people in the world," President Donald Trump told reporters on March 6 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "You never really know when something like this is going to strike and what it's going to be."
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