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they could have on the winter season. what does the analysis say? >> we know that the viruses tend to spread more as the weather gets cooler and dryer. so covid is still around. that's very clear. what this analysis did, this was from the commonwealth fund and yale. they said, look, if you stay at the current booster rate, what's going to happen? and what they expect is that, you know, we'll peak around 1,000 deaths per day again some time over the fall and winter. if we increase eligible to closer to 50%, which is around flu vaccine uptake, then we could potentially save 75,000 lives if we get closer to 80%, 90,000 lives could be saved by the end of march, the end of winter. so these are the numbers out there. it still boggles my mind a little bit we haven't seen more protective measures taking place in the form of boosters.