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About. >> the u.s. confirming its second case, one in new york, one in massachusetts. there are at least 09 confirmed cases -- 90 confirmed cases worldwide. while the president said everyone should be concerned, the white house covid response coordinator tried to temper fears. >> this is a virus we understand. we have vaccines against it. we have treatments against it. im confident were going to be able to keep our arms around it, but were going to track it very closely and use the tools we have...

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Is that because theres so many home tests and people arent reporting after that? >> absolutely so. tracking the number of people tested in new york city, which i follow closely, theres been a decrease, somewhat dramatic decrease in the daily testing numbers: i think the good news is that people are testing at home. it has an impact on the ability to look across the public health impact of the infection, absolutely under counted. >> dr. jha also says theres going to need to be an update for the v...

Coronavirus cases are rising in 47 states across this country. white house covid response coordinator dr. ashish jha warns the current national case count does not paint the full picture. >> were crossing that hundred thousand threshold, and im convinced we are substantially under counting the number of infections out there because of home tests. so we have a lot of infections, its continuing to rise, and i expect that that number will continue to rise in the days and weeks ahead. >> joining me ...

Phase? >> thats the million dollar question. no one knows. i think -- my opinion here is that absolutely yes, that the virus seems, when it bounces back, seems more or less untouched by the antiviral. its the same strain, theres no evident mutations. its the same old guy just coming back more or less at the same amount that you had going in, so i think yeah, i think that we have created a little bit of a public health confusion. when i rebounded, i stayed back home, left my mask on if i went any...

Communities to mask up. >> reporter: in areas where community levels are high, everyone should be using prevention measures and wearing a mask in public indoor settings. in areas with medium covid-19 community levels in yellow, individuals should consider taking prevention measures based on their own risks, like avoiding crowds, wearing a mask, increasing their testing, especially before gathering with others indoors. >> the white house covid response coordinator is touting the roll-out of the a...

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Inside the administration really track closely and is based on the underlying assumption there will be no extra mitigation factors. that includes no additional funding from congress for the administration to respond to this pandemic. now, in an abc interview recently white house covid response coordinator dr. ashish jha didnt talk about these numbers specifically but he talked about a potential surge in the fall that could be fueled by some of these sub variants. take a listen. >> with waning im...