comes to vaccination progress in that department as well. the cdc says 77.3% of u.s. adults have now had at least one covid vaccine dose. do you think that's why we're seeing a decline in new cases because today if you look at the average daily case rate it is at the lowest it has been in more than seven weeks? >> well, you know, i -- i can't answer the back end of that, but front end of that, this is really encouraging news, you know. that is a great rate. the kaiser family foundation put out data that breaks it down and looks to see, okay, how are we doing by group and one of the things that really i found extremely encouraging is that the adult vaccination rate for black americans, latino americans and white americans is about the same. all hovering around 70%. the biggest gaps we see are by political affiliation and by urban versus rural and when it comes to urban versus rural i think we need to look are there barriers to access in rural