i want to talk about the states and the divergence we're seeing in vaccination rates and in the beginning there was a lot of confounding variables about states that were hit hard, states that were doing a good job and bad job. the further on we've gotten, the more these underlying political social structures seemed to be driving a really worrying divergence in the paths of the country's combatting of the virus. >> yeah. i think the path that you identified clearly shows how polarized america's attitudes to the pandemic and now to vaccinations have become. i would sound a small note of caution that politics isn't the only factor that's driving this. there are also issues of trust and so on and even in states that have met biden's goal, there are still going to be pockets of unprotected, unvaccinated people. it's really important to keep maintaining that push for more vaccinations across the board