Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner and current Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb said he believes COVID-19 infections are going to continue to fall as spring approaches and that the United States should be “as aggressive” about relaxing restrictions as it was about imposing them. Gottlieb made the remarks in a Jan. 28 interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program, with the segment kicking off with a discussion on the current state of the pandemic in the United States, where data suggests the current Omicron-driven wave is on the wane. Parts of the United States are rapidly improving, Gottlieb said, while other regions are just hitting their epidemic peak. Deaths, which lag infections in the data, will continue to rise for a period of time even after cases start coming down, he added. New daily infections in the United States have been on the decline in recent weeks, falling to …