That was Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration, discussing the avian-flu crisis in the U.S. in a recent op-ed in STAT, a publication that specializes in health and medicine.

March 12 Despite consumer prices increasing just 2.8% compared to last year and the index for food increasing just 0.2% in February, the Consumer Price Index revealed egg prices continue to rise, increasing 10.4% from January to February (with seasonal adjustments) and 58.8% year-over-year.

The Trump administration is importing hundreds of millions of eggs to help lower consumer prices and is expanding efforts to source eggs from more countries. Egg prices have already dropped more than 50% in the last month.