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Not have you already been exposed to this virus and your body's immune system has already kicked. in the leading theory right now is once have you had this infection that confers immunity meaning you probably can't get it again. and if you do you probably have less severe case with the illness. that's very different from that nasal swab which we have been doing which is actually looking for virus particles in itself. and the serology test, the blood test, looking for the antibodies is going to be approved and start getting it out there. the good thing about this is we can start doing it on our...

Mask for one instance at a time. for a physician when we see a patient, we wear a mask and we throw it away. right now what we are doing is trying to keep one mask throughout the entire day. these are just surge masks. n-95 masks can last longer until they are visibly soiled on the outside. right now you try to use at least one mask a day. we like to put it out in the sunlight, the uv rays can help sanitize it. if you want, you can spray it down with a disinfectant but make sure that it's dry. even wait maybe 24 hours before you put it on your face. i do not want you inhaling those chemicals b...

Soon. especially if we're talking about a pregnant woman who is somewhat high risk. so i would just hold ooff on that. for me i'm planning things for after the summer. i do think we will get out and be able to do a lot of things during the summer, absolutely. but really, if you are planning any solidify that you want to invite people to, i would wait until after the summer months. brian: one day at a time. steve: dr. saphier, thank you for joining us. some people have questions. if you do, email us friends@foxnews.com. dr. saphier, thank you. it is 6:15 now here in the east coast, and jillian ...

Brian: let me follow up with that so here we are, we have done this for two and a half weeks now. dr. saphier. why isn't our curve bending? the people that were infected are infected. at the very least. wouldn't you think in theory the numbers should be going down? i don't think the going down yet. this virus itself has a long incubation period and prolonged space and you say we should be seeing numbers going down but we are seeing the numbers changing because of these mitigation efforts. you hear governor cuomo talk about all the time dr. birx talk about that the doubling time elongated. star...

Because this is big thing. this is about our health. >> reporter: while health officials believe the spike in cases is due to more testing, not faster spread, this strain not identified in humans before is a variation of coronavirus. that includes the sars virus that killed 800 people worldwide starting in 2002. >> this strain is particularly aggressive and particularly dangerous. once it starts spreading from person to person, it's really hard to keep people quarantined. >> reporter: tonight concern around the world over a mysterious strain of coronavirus as the number of cases and fear grows...