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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. i'm confident we're going to be able to keep our arms around it, but we're going to track it very closely and use the tools we have to make sure that we continue to, you know, prevent further spread. >> now, nicole, i'm seeing a...

Mercyhealth set up its fully-equipped, 1,900 square-foot health care mobile disaster response facility Thursday at Javon Bea Hospital on Rockton Ave.

Is that because there's so many home tests and people aren't reporting after that? >> absolutely so. tracking the number of people tested in new york city, which i follow closely, there's 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 there's going to need to be an update for the vaccines in the fall and winter. are we now going to be in this posture where there will have to ...

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. >> we're crossing that hundred thousand threshold, and i'm convinced we are substantially under counting the number of infections out there because of home tests. so we have a lot of infections, it's continuing to rise, and i expect that that number will continue to rise in the days and weeks ahead. >> joining me now is dr. kent ac sepkawitz a physician at keting sl -- kettering sloan in new york. dr. jha say...

Phase? >> that's 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. it's the same strain, there's no evident mutations. it's 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 anywhere, and you know, ached and sniffled and felt for myself like one does. >> all right. dr. ken...