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 didn t 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 immunity, with omicron as contagious as it is in each new version becoming more contagious, i think it stands to reason we may very well get a large surge infections. so right now we re doing everything we can to prepare for that, to make sure americans are protect and ready if that surge were to come. reporter: so that preparedness includes the white house asking congress to pass a covid funding package of about