During the pandemic, Dr. Scott Gottlieb -- like a handful of public health experts -- became a household name and his face became a familiar sight on television news shows.
The head of the US Food and Drug Administration from 2017 to 2019, Gottlieb says he tried to avert the global health emergency by sounding the alarms very early on to former colleagues in the Trump White House and in Congress.
Today, he has another message.
"I don't think pandemics need to happen. I think emerging viruses will happen, but I don't think that they need to turn into pandemics," Gottlieb told CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta in his podcast, Chasing Life.
"Maybe the pandemics that happened in the past -- where we were sort of helpless and couldn't do anything to either detect them and contain them early or thwart them with vaccines and therapeutics quickly -- now we have the tools to prevent them from spiraling into pandemics. And I think that that should be our goal. I think it's achievable."
In this week's episode, Gottlieb tells Gupta what went wrong in the early days of the emerging global health crisis and how disaster can be averted next time.
And to be sure, there will be a next time.
Gottlieb -- an internal medicine doctor, a member of the board of directors of vaccinemaker Pfizer, as well as a resident fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank and a businessman -- is now out with a new book, "Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and...
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