'We're not going to be able to shut down the country again this summer. We're probably not going to be able to shut down the country again this fall,' he said on CNBC's 'Squawk Box.'
States like Arizona, Texas and Florida that are seeing surges in confirmed cases, as well as spikes in hospitalizations, in some cases should be conducting aggressive contact tracing, Gottlieb said. Contact tracing occurs when trained personnel interview infected individuals to pinpoint where they were infected and to track down others who might have been exposed.
Nationally, the virus continues to infect about 20,000 people each day, Gottlieb said, adding that it's a higher rate of infection than many other countries that have grappled with large outbreaks. He noted that come the fall, other countries might place travel restrictions on Americans because of the high level of persistent spread.
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