Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, asserted on Friday that COVID-19 will become an endemic virus in the United States and other Western countries once the recent rise in Delta variant infections calms down. Likewise, two professors—one from Stanford and one from Harvard—have essentially declared the pandemic over, writing that “In [the] USA, COVID mortality is now the lowest since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.” Gottlieb’s Views on COVID-19 Becoming Endemic Appearing on CNBC, Gottlieb, who sits on the board at Pfizer, said there are already indications cases are declining despite...