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>> yeah, just like meningococcal vaccinations, which is an essential vaccine to prevent meningitis. and this should be on the list. the problem, anderson, is that vaccine policy is often not set at the federal level. as far as i know, there are limits to what the president can authorize and do. and this is done at the state level. and there's a lot of heterogeneity among the states. in terms of what they're willing to do. in texas where we have a very aggressive anti-vaccine lobby that lobbies the state legislature, we have our own anti-vaccine political action committee, as extraordinary as that sounds, and it's really damaging. it's been in operation for a number of years. and so it's really tough down in states like this. and these are the same states that are also up against masks as well. >> sanjay, according to the american academy of pediatrics, almost 94,000 new covid cases among children were reported in the week ending on august 5th. you hear those numbers, 94,000, i heard that and obviously as a