members of the nypd in the hospital, all unvaccinated. >> there is a connection between vaccination and hospitalization rates. take west virginia. lowest vaccination rate and the highest vaccination rate. >> we are going through the peak and it looks like we're starting to turn down. >> reporter: the delta driven surge is still rolling around the country, but -- >> i think by thanksgiving it will have run the course across the whole country. it should decline on the back end of the delta wave and we get back to more normalcy when vaccines will be available for children as well and people could protect their kids also. >> reporter: now even when those kids are authorized for the vaccine, even when the booster roll out, we're not anticipating a shortage of the pfizer vaccine. which in one sense is great news. in another sense it is terrible news because it means that the demand for first doses isn't that high and there are still