state of vaccines around the united states and around the world. we expect to hear the president will talk about progress that's been made in the last couple weeks as the delta variant is surging across the country you have been seeing those vaccination rates across the country tick up again after being at a plateau for several weeks. that increase is especially being reflected in the states with the highest number of covid cases right now. especially those states in the south like louisiana, like florida, that are really struggling with this delta variant and surging coronavirus cases. the president is also going to be talking about some of the efforts that he's seen from the private sector in the last week or so to begin to require vaccinations and we heard the white house coronavirus coordinator talk about that going forward requirements to be vaccinated and mandates are the kind of things that will be necessary if the united states is going to see the light of day at the other end of this pandemic. so you can expect to hear the president encourage the private