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Gottlieb, who is plugging a new book, “Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic,” appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation” and said the 6 ft. social distancing requirement recommended by the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention was “arbitrary.”
“The six feet rule was arbitrary in and of itself,” Gottlieb said. “Nobody knows where it came from. Most people assume that the six feet of distance, the recommendation for keeping six feet apart, comes out of some old studies related to flu, where droplets don’t travel more than six feet. We now know COVID spreads through aerosols. We’ve known that for a while, so how operative is that?”
Former head of FDA says 6 ft. distancing rule was ‘arbitrary’: ‘Nobody knows where it came from’
If you get the sense that the so-called “experts” are making it all up when it comes to the pandemic, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration Scott Gottlieb is only going to reinforce that notion.Gottlieb, who is plugging a new book, “Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic,” appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation” and said the 6 ft. social distancing requirement recommended by the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention was “arbitrary.”
“The six feet rule was arbitrary in and of itself,” Gottlieb said. “Nobody knows where it came from. Most people assume that the six feet of distance, the recommendation for keeping six feet apart, comes out of some old studies related to flu, where droplets don’t travel more than six feet. We now know COVID spreads through aerosols. We’ve known that for a while, so how operative is that?”
Former head of FDA says 6 ft. distancing rule was 'arbitrary': 'Nobody knows where it came from'
"Most people assume the six feet of distance, the recommendation for keeping six feet apart, comes out of some old studies related to flu."
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