spike in monkeypox cases. the cdc now says there are close to 1,500 cases confirmed across the country. consider the cases crossed the 1,000 mark just yesterday. >> cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohenorried about this spike? >> this particular spike, the numbers that you just showed, alisyn, that may be just because of the way it's being reported. the numbers are going up and that is not good. and of course there is concern, so the u.s. government is responding in several ways, one of which is that they're doubling the amount of vaccine that's out there and also they're increasing testing capacity. we saw how important that was with covid. they've had the capacity to do 6,000 tests per week and they're going to be able to do 70,000 tests per week. that's a lot, a big increase. so let's take a look at some of the monkeypox numbers. right now in the u.s., as you mentioned, 1,470 cases, that's 414 cases just in new york state itself and dr. anthony fauci says 1.1 million vaccine doses should be available shortly. so that's a big increase from where it was. and if we look sort of more generally at monkeypox, what we see here is that worldwide we've got nearly 12,000 cases in 65 countri