month. the white house says even states with low vaccination rates have seen a rise in new patients. overall the cdc says more than 200 million people in the u.s. have received at least one dose. to get perspective from dr. peter hotez from texas children's hospital. he's also the author of "preventing the next pandemic: vaccine diplomacy in a time of antiscience" and former surgeon general dr. jerome adams. dr. adams last month you tweeted u.s. citizens were dying while the country is waiting for full approval of the pfizer vaccine. approval to be imminent. how important is it? >> right now as you mentioned, this is still just conjecture, but i'm praying -- i'm really praying, anderson, that this comes to pass. this will pave the way for organizations to have more aggressive tactics in terms of getting their employees