Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb questioned whether government vaccine mandates were backfiring against the goals of public health officials in light of vaccination achievements.

Gottlieb made the comments on an interview with “Face the Nation” broadcast Sunday.

“The public health implications I worry about is that the opposition that’s forming to these COVID mandates is going to bleed into opposition to other kinds of vaccine mandates and things that we’ve long come to accept, like mandates on childhood immunizations for school, even mandates on health care workers,” he explained.

“People are going to start to oppose. They’re not going to parse opposition to mandates on this COVID vaccine to mandates to other kinds of vaccines, and you’re going to see vaccine uptake generally start to decline. That’s what I worry about,” Gottlieb continued.