country that might escape delta are the high vaccination areas in the northeast, new england, midatlantic states. they'll have some trouble, but i think they'll weather it a lot better. and then the west coast. but the south is getting hammered the worst right now because the vaccination rates are so profoundly low, and in a very unique way. they're low among young people. and that's who's piling into hospitals right now and into intensive care units, and even pediatric hospitals. in the texas medical center, the median age of people in the hospital right now are in their 30s. and that's the new flavor of this delta virus. it's striking young people. and that's going to continue now for the foreseeable future, especially as schools start to open. i think that's going act as an accelerant, especially in the southern schools where people don't have masks and the adolescent vaccination rates are around 15 to 25%. >> doctor, let's go to general mccaffrey actually, and general,