pandemic is a global response. not only within our own country -- and we are working to get a lot of doses, many, many doses, literally hundreds of millions of doses, more than a billion, to other countries, particularly low and middle income countries. but in direct answer to your question, we are seeing a turnaround as you mentioned correctly, diminution in cases, diminution in hospitalization. deaths are still up, but that is usually a lagging indicator. and i fully expect if we keep going in the direction of a diminution in hospitalization and cases that the deaths will start coming down. having said that, not to diminish that that's good, positive news, is that we still have so many people who are not vaccinated that we'd better be careful that we don't say we're out of the woods. we might not be out of the woods in the sense of no more covid around at all. you know, i also said something over the weekend that was taken