Gottlieb, McClellan Push For National COVID-19 Surveillance System

Former FDA chiefs Scott Gottlieb and Mark McClellan are pushing for the government to implement a national surveillance system for COVID-19. Gottlieb has been working with the White House’s Coronavirus Task Force on how to implement a sentinel surveillance system, and a spokesperson for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed to Inside Health Policy that there have been discussions and some work is being done. Currently, the best system the United States has for tracking COVID-19 is...