we know a third dose or we call a booster dose way better than just two. so i think i am all for tightening that up. and then, look. i -- i put this in front of the president. i think it's a complex question. i'm not sure which way i would advise him unless i was looking at all the data and all the facts. but certainly, it's an option that he has available to him and i think he knows he's got it available to him. and if we get into january, um, i hope that his advisers -- and i have confident that his advisers are going to be, you know, pushing for a decision one way or the other. >> all right. andy slavitt, thank you very much for your time. we appreciate it. >> thank you, jim. and given the climbing pediatric hospitalization numbers, i want to focus more closely now on what parents need to know, especially as back to school approaches. let's talk to dr. paul offit, who we saw him briefly in tom foreman's report a few moments ago. he is director of the vaccine education center at children's hospital of fphiladelphia. also a member of the fda vaccine