berland, the codirector of the p pediatric disease. i appreciate your time. i understand you're just finishing your rounds and joining us. you are living this firsthand, you have seven children in your icu, as we watch back to school, and deal with the mask debate and the delta variant, what that's like, seven children, how high is that compared to a month ago, six months ago? >> it's much higher than what we have been seeing in the past, and numbers, well, perhaps the total number of new cases is slowing down, the important thing is we're still having new cases, and as these children are coming in, many of them are requiring intensive care support. many are on ventilators, ecmo, the heart lung bypass machine. this is ravaging children across our region, and i fear ultimately it may spread further across the united states with the new delta variant. >> as we watch this play out, i want to bring up the vaccine, you're in alabama, 40%, west