On Friday's broadcast of CNBC's "Squawk Box," former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb called for immediate action to deal with increased morbidity after the coronavirus pandemic due to things like weight gain, increased alcohol consumption, mental health problems, and people missing health screenings during the pandemic and stated that there is a "reluctance" to talk about the world post-COVID, "including by public health officials who feared that if we talked too much about the post-COVID state and what the future looks like, it's going to take away the incentives of people to try to engage in behavior now to try to control the spread of the virus."