coronavirus cases. the u.s. death toll could reach as high as 233,000 by the end of this month. joining me, associate professor in emergency medicine, dr. esther chchu. good to talk to you again. with two-thirds of the country reporting an increase in cases across the u.s., what does that indicate to you about our level of control in the middle of the fall? >> this is really concerning as we head into the fall, particularly as we're going to start to overlap with the flu and we will need to face in all of our hospitals a big influx of illnesses of all kinds. sorting out flu from covid is not really a challenge that we've faced on this level because earlier in the winter and the spring as covid was introduced, we are just coming out of a flu season and hadn't really seen a significant uptick of cases until flu season was