App. Joining us from new york,s in dr. Scott gottlieb, the former head of the food and Drug Administration, served as commissioner in the Trump Administration from 2017 to 2019, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise institution. Here to talk about the response to global coronavirus. Doctor, good morning. Thanks for having me. Can we start with you gauging the response to date. What is working and whats been done well . What would you have some concerns with as far as the u. S. Response . Well, the efforts we made to implement travel restrictions and limit travel from china clearly bought us some time. It slowed the rate of new cases coming into the country. I think the question then becomes what did we do with that time . We did some things well and some things not so well. We prepared the nation, got the Health Care System prepared, able to educate providers. We learned more about the virus and how it spreads and how you can combat it. The one thing we didnt do that we should h
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