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Used Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb warned against evaluating the radical coronavirus to the flu Sunday, responding to remarks White Condo adviser Jared KushnerJared Corey KushnerSunday shows preview: Mail-in voting, USPS funding dominates political debate sooner than conventions Newsweek apologizes for Kamala Harris op-ed Jared Kushner denies Trump ‘selling’ questions about Kamala Harris MORE made earlier in the day.

CBS’s Margaret Brennan successfully-known that in the sooner segment, Kushner had acknowledged he used to be satisfied sending his formative years relief to college, arguing they grasp been “six cases as seemingly” to die from flu as from the virus.

@ScottGottliebMD says People must serene be “careful” in making comparisons of #COVID19 to the flu by technique of formative years, noting flu prevalence is a ways increased among formative years:

Flu➡️upwards of 400 deaths a year

COVID-19 ➡️90 deaths up to now pic.twitter.com/xi6McTsN4B

— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) August 16, 2020

“Well, I fabricate now not know where the six cases comes from. We must serene be careful, I feel, about making comparisons to flu. This infection hasn’t been as prevalent in formative years as flu is every year. There may perchance be been about 330,000 diagnosed infections,” Gottlieb acknowledged. “Whilst you happen to suspect we’re diagnosing 1 in 5 to 1 in 10 infections in formative years, perchance there grasp been about 3 million formative years who’ve been infected with this.”

Gottlieb conceded that the coronavirus did now not appear like “as prevalent” in formative years as the flu is. Alternatively, he successfully-known that as successfully as to some 90 formative years’s deaths from the virus, there are indications that it may perchance well per chance also simply location off inflammatory put up-viral syndromes in formative years in some case.

“There may perchance be plenty we fabricate now not tag about COVID in formative years. I feel we must serene be careful about making comparisons to flu and the loss of life and illness we scrutinize in flu relative to COVID,” Gottlieb acknowledged.

The feeble FDA commissioner furthermore acknowledged that while he had anticipated a height and decline in deaths by this point, “there’s been a rather continual stage of infection, hospitalizations and deaths over the previous couple of weeks.”

“We now grasp had over a thousand deaths a day for a minimal of two weeks now, over 50,000 infections a day on life like,” he acknowledged. “We hit 55,000 in the last day. Hospitalizations grasp come down fair a limited bit, however they haven’t primarily started to claim no very without be conscious.”