would stop the next one to come or for more venezuelans from leaving their home country for the united states. they put a limit which is what they are doing now amidst all of this controversy. thank you so much for being with us this morning. up next poll numbers reveal who voters do not want on the 2024 ticket. we look at the focus of both parties. we will chat in just a second. and later the white house covid czar, ashish jha breaks down the white house plan to attack the new variant spreading like wildfire. jose diaz-blart reports. jose diaz-blart reports. and the announcer? he s not checkin his stats, he s finding some investing ideas with merrill. and third as you know in baseball means three.
being treated as presumptive positive for monkeypox. a day after a man in massachusetts was diagnosed with the disease, he had recently traveled to canada. now we reached out to dr. paul beninger, at massachusetts general brigham, where the patient is being treated. the massachusetts resident, he s been hospitalized at massachusetts general hospital since may 12th, he s in isolation and stable condition, but the doctor said they re not sure how the patient caught the disease. turning now to covid-19 and troubling news from the white house covid czar. dr. ashish jha said that cases are being substantially undercounted because of at-home
updates on covid-19 and some troubling news from the white house covid czar, dr. ashish jha believes covid cases are being substantially undercounted, of course, due to those home tests that everyone is taking. that means cases could be even higher than the more than 100,000 average daily cases recorded by johns hopkins university. infections have more than doubled over the past month and are trending up in all but three states. recent data from the cdc shows that people who are unvaccinated have a risk of dying from covid 17 times higher than those who are fully vaccinated with a booster. unvaccinated people were also about twice as likely to test positive for covid-19 in march and april than unvaccinated people. dr. scott miscavige is a national consultant for code of testing and joins me now from hawaii. i m glad to see you again,
nestle formula from europe to the united states. meantime the second largest infant formula maker in the united states says it has increased manufacturing now by 35%. this, of course, is in response to a recall by the top manufacturer in the u.s., abbott nutrition, and that happened back in february. officials say this was the catalyst for the baby formula crisis. some troubling news from the white house covid czar. dr. hasheesh jha says he believes covid cases are being substantially undercounted due to home tests. that means cases could be even higher than the more than 100,000 average daily cases recorded by john hopkins university. infections have more than doubled in the past month and are trending up in all but three states. recent data from the cdc shows people who are unvaccinate vd a risk of dying from covid 17 times higher than those fully vaccinated with a booster.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki and COVID-19 czar Dr. Ashish Jha are expected to hold a news briefing this afternoon, as COVID cases rise across the country. The event is scheduled to start at 3 p.m. ET. Watch the briefing in the player above. On Monday, the White House said that if Congress doesn't approve more funding for COVID-19 treatment and prevention, the U.S. could lose critical opportunities to secure booster doses and new antiviral