"I don't know if it will be worse, I think this has been pretty bad," explained Deborah Birx , MD, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator, according to CNN . "When you see what happened in New York, that was very bad. I believe that we'll have early warning signals both from our surveillance that we've been talking about in these vulnerable populations. We're going to continue that surveillance from now all the way through to be able to give us that early warning signal."