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The James Altucher Show

759 - Dr. Scott Gottlieb (Part 1): Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 CRUSHED Us

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

When did Covid-19 start to spread? How did it get spread globally so quickly? How is it different than all the other Flu-like diseases? In this episode, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, an American physician, investor, Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner, and author, came on to talk about his new book, Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic. We also talked about how should The CDC have responded to the pandemic, how did the "6 inches" guideline came about, can we have another economic lockdown, and how and why is the current Covid-19 situation so much different than the plague or pandemic back in the day! Listen to this Part 1 out of 2, and Part 2 will come out the same day too! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.8

This is the James Altiger Show.

0:12.8

Today on the James Altiger Show.

0:15.7

I'm so grateful that Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner who just wrote the book Uncontrolled

0:21.7

Spread.

0:22.7

It's like the Bible of what happened with COVID from early on to yesterday.

0:27.7

He comes on, answers all the questions I've had for the past year and a half about COVID,

0:33.8

drugs for COVID, how did it spread, what were good with the economic lockdowns, what

0:38.3

were not good, why the misinformation that I feel we had early on, what's going to happen

0:43.9

next.

0:44.9

Scott answered all my questions.

0:46.6

This one's divided into a part one and part two.

0:49.5

It's all released on the same day.

0:50.8

Part two addresses more on the question of vaccines and what's coming next.

0:54.9

Part one is basically what the hell happened in general.

0:59.4

Enjoy.

1:00.4

Scott, you've done a lot of things in your life.

1:11.3

You're a young guy, but you were the FDA commissioner in the, for much of the Trump administration.

1:16.5

You wrote what I now consider the definitive book, at least for now, about COVID-19.

1:22.2

It's called uncontrolled spread, why COVID-19 crushed us and how we get to feed the next

1:26.9

pandemic.

1:27.9

I have a lot of questions.

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